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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This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again.
Kerry King 
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Aaron Allston
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Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
Alex Lifeson
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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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It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.
Joyce Cary
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem
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