Tragedy

10 quotes.

• The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

  W.M. Lewis

• Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

• One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

  Attributed to Joseph Stalin

• A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

  Joseph Stalin

• Comedy is tragedy plus time.

  Carol Burnett

• Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

  Charlie Chaplin

• There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

  Mel Brooks

• There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

  Oscar Wilde

• Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

  Ernest Hemingway

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