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.
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.
Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.
There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
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.
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.
American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
