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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I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
Pierre Salinger 
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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Mario Puzo
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Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.
Jim McKay
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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Arthur E. Morgan
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It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
John Dyer
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My book Trust Your Heart, which is the story of my life, will be followed by Singing Lessons, a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
Judy Collins
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The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.
John Walsh
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How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Paul Sweeney
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Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
Peter Shaffer
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Popular Tragedy Authors
Henry David ThoreauOscar WildeBenjamin Franklin PlatoH. L. Mencken AristotleMartin Luther King, Jr.David Herbert LawrenceAldous HuxleyJohn F. KennedyDwight D. EisenhowerGeorge W. BushHenry MillerErnest HemingwayPierre Corneille
Bryant H. McGillErma BombeckThomas HuxleyJames MadisonAlbert SchweitzerGene TierneyWilliam Butler YeatsF. Scott FitzgeraldKarl MarxJean CocteauRichard BachAlfred North WhiteheadLudwig WittgensteinWilliam FaulknerBen Kingsley
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