There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your…

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

— Oscar Wilde

“There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It!”

— Francis Bacon

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

— George Bernard Shaw

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go…

— John Powell

“The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd…

— Oscar Wilde

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur…

— Jean Cocteau

“It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these…

— Émile Gaboriau

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

— Anonymous

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a…

— James Weldon Johnson

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or…

— Amelia Barr

“Somehow, despite it's tragedies, life goes on.”

— Robert Bloch; Andre Norton

That's one of the tragedies of this life-that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

— Anonymous

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

— Myles Munroe

“Some of the greatest tragedies of life are unrecognized oppurtunities”

— Tonny K. Brown