Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
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.
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.
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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