Life Quote by Vaclav Havel

“Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Anonymous

“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Modern non-religious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Mircea Eliade

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply it's bareness, it's dinginess, it's…

— George Orwell

“His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.”

— John Connolly

“And for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness.”

— Anne Carson

“Tragic phrases comfort the heart… Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.”

— Cristina Garcia

“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy…

— August Strindberg

“he mentioned that The Tragedy of Man by Madách had “influenced my whole life.” The moral he recalled from it was that no matter…

— William Lanouette