Dalai Lama

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Tibetan Leader

Norman Cousins

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

American Author

George W. Bush

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.

American President

Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Greek Philosopher

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

American Scientist

Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Irish Poet

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Irish Playwright

Benjamin Franklin

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

American Politician

Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

German Theologian

Use 'tragedy' to express extreme sorrow, often with a sense of shock.

Depth of Sadness

'Tragedy' often involves events affecting many people or a community.

Public Impact

'Tragedy' implies the sadness wasn't directly anyone's fault.

Not Personal Fault

'Tragedy' can also describe a story with a sad ending, often a character's fall.

Literary Genre

In literary 'tragedies', the protagonist usually faces unavoidable misfortune.

Character Downfall

A 'tragedy' in literature often explores complex emotions and moral conflicts.

Emotional Nuance

'Tragedy' refers to situations causing profound grief or despair.

Deep Sadness

The word reflects not only personal but also greater collective sorrow.

Beyond Personal

 Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth but flawed human beings, I couldn't pretend otherwise. I couldn't justify our actions -- especially our cruel practice of protesting funerals and celebrating human tragedy. These shifts in my perspective

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 With its fluid language and approach to identity, "Orlando" is considered a key text in gender studies. The mind can only fly so far from the body before it returns to the constraints of life. Like many of her characters, Woolf's life ended in tragedy

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 white who had just covered world war ii and the holocaust likened the streets of india to the gates of the buchenwald concentration camp that tragedy of partition and its rumbling aftershocks echo through the collective memory of india pakistan and

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 and he begins to plots his revenge on the new king and his court of conspirators. The play is an odd sort of tragedy, lacking either the abrupt brutality or all-consuming romance that characterize Shakespeare’s other work in the genre.

 spiraling into ruin. Sound familiar? This is the classic story pattern for Greek tragedy. For thousands of years, we've spun spellbinding tales that fit this pattern, and modern storytellers around the world continue to do so.

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 That's my challenge to all of us, but I think where there's a will and where there is imagination we can turn this into a future driven by peace and prosperity and not once again repeat the tragedies of war. I thank you.

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 these deaths are forgotten about for the most part except for by mothers this is the absolute worst tragedy a mother could endure there's no more helpless of a feeling than watching your child die

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 as we strive to protect our families this is the next chapter of our story a story of bravery heartbreak tragedy and joy which we live and breathe every day

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 I think it's a big tragedy big tragedy for the country in for the world