Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Tragedy is a literary concept.
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 makes you grow up.
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 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.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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 like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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.