Definition of Tragedy

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Tragedy

A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.

A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.

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Tragedy Quotations

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway

Tragedy Translations

tragedy in Afrikaans is tragedie
tragedy in Dutch is tragisch
tragedy in Italian is tragedia, tragedia
tragedy in Spanish is tragedia
tragedy in Swedish is tragedi

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