T Quotes
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“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.”
Source: Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays
“the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.”
Source: The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
“The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice”
“The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.”
“The tragedy of death is not that it ends life so soon, but it shatters all our beliefs”
Source: Goodbye Girl
“The tragedy of death is unreal... Children of light; they will not sleep forever in delusion [in the physical world of maya illusions]. [...]
Creation is only a vast motion picture; and not in it, but beyond it, lies [one's] own reality.”
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi
“The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you’ll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased.”
Source: Crepuscule
“The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the biological sense have a feminine approach to design.”
Source: City as Landscape: A Post-postmodern View of Design and Planning
“The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.”
“The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite.”
“The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.”
“The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.”
“The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.”
Source: SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life
“The tragedy of humanity is how truly good hearts and minds very rarely seek the crown, seek to walk in front or take the lead.”
“The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.”
“The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.”
“The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.”
Source: Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby
“The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.”
“The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.”
“The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.”
“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.”
“The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.”
“The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
“The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.”
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.”
“The tragedy of life is that, all know weakness, very few know strength - all know rigidity, very few know sanity - all know death, very few know life.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“The tragedy of life is -
that everything falls for it.”
“The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone. Since life comes just once, I encourage you to give it your best shot.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“The tragedy of life is that people do not change.”
Source: Taken at the flood
“The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.”
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer
“The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.”
Source: Original Sin
“The tragedy of love is indifference.”
“The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.”
Source: The Trembling of a Leaf: Stories of the South Sea Islands
“The tragedy of love is that its intensity grows stronger after the relationship ends.”
“The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.”
Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings
“The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!”
“The tragedy of man is the difference between what he can be, and what he is.”
Source: A Line Intersected
“The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.”
Source: London Match
“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.”
Source: Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987
“The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.”
“The tragedy of not building friendships in families can be generational.”
“The tragedy of our age is job”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“The tragedy of our age is salary”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?