The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Smith

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
Pierre Corneille

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Shirley Hazzard

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
William Feather

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
Douglas Hurd

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
Rafael Palmeiro

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
Brenda Ueland

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
Henry Miller

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.
William Barclay

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays

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.
Norman Cousins

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.
Jenny Weber

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
Germaine Greer

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.
Vaclav Havel

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Edward Abbey

The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
Allen Klein

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
Maggie Gallagher

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Harry Emerson Fosdick