There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
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What is the meaning of the quote of George Bernard Shaw — 'There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it'?
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Kerry Kiefer
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Answered July 30, 2017
The meaning of such an adage is best learned by experience, and the process of aging delivers. It is not always the case that there is a difference between what we want and what we get, but it will happen. What we imagine is only a shadow of the actual experience of that thing delivered into our reality. Furthermore, we cannot predict the future. What may begin happily enough, as a marriage, can falter with the encounter of financial stress or ill health.
However, it is also important to realize that perhaps the worse thing that could happen to a person is not necessarily as Bernard Shaw reports. He was a great playwright and, of course, had pithy things to say, but he was more often than not, facetious. He enjoyed humor, hyperbole, quips, and the ribald and irreverent, in general. Shaw is at his mischievous best with the quote you have presented above.