The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
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One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
It is the lot of man but once to die.
One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
Every man dies. Not every man lives.