Top Tragedy Quotes
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato 
87% of people like this quote
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
82% of people like this quote
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
73% of people like this quote
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
68% of people like this quote
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
68% of people like this quote
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
65% of people like this quote
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
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