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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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 is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy
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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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The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
Jack Schwartz
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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
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People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
Curt Flood
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
Barnett Newman
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It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.
Edward Zwick
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
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Henry David ThoreauOscar WildeBenjamin Franklin PlatoH. L. Mencken AristotleMartin Luther King, Jr.David Herbert LawrenceJohn F. KennedyAldous HuxleyDwight D. EisenhowerGeorge W. BushHenry MillerErnest HemingwayBryant H. McGill
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