It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun…

“The biggest police gun battle ever to take place on American soil had begun, and it was on live television. —”

— Jeffrey Toobin

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

— Erich Fromm

Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

— Jane Urquhart

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is…

— Jennifer Stone

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

— Thomas Harris

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

— Ellen Glasgow

It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the…

— Willa Cather

A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

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…

— Benjamin E. Mays

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead…

— Bernie Leadon

I have always believed that if you need to take your clothes off to get your man, you've begun to lose the battle. If…

— Bipasha Basu

“Begin the fun, the fun's begun. One for all, and all for one.”

— Laura Chester

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.

— Katharine Hepburn

“My life has begun to feel like an epilogue.”

— Gillian Flynn