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Definition of Tragedy
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

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

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.

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

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
Horace Walpole

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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