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“For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.”

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Author:Judge Reinhold

“There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Source: Starship Troopers

“Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”

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Author:Ellen Glasgow

“I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.”

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Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days

“The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.”

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Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way

Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way

“Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.”

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Author:Zoe Akins

“I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.”

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Author:Woody Allen