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
Mario Puzo 
Leonardo DiCaprio 
Aldous Huxley 
James Branch Cabell 
Artie Lange 
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
Jacky Ickx 
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
Alfred de Vigny
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Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.
Louise Slaughter
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No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
Alan Hovhaness
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Lenny Bruce
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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
Sun Ra
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The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Shirley Hazzard
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