“Far more real than the ticking of time is the way we open up the minutes and invest them with meaning. Death is not the ultimate tragedy in life. The ultimate tragedy is to die without discovering the possibilities of full growth.”

“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”

“The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.”

“You can’t pay for tragedy with more tragedy, or draw life from death.” “I”

“To me, tragedy is if I'll cut my finger, that's tragedy…Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.”

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

“Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.”

“Life is a tragedy full of joy.”

“The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.”

“Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.”