Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Tragedy is a literary concept.
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.