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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.
Tragedy is a literary concept.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.
For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.
Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.