1 It is one of the great romantic tragedies of the age.
2 The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
3 It is not my fault that this terrible tragedy has prevented my doing what was right.
4 I passed a dreadful evening, half afraid that one tragedy might be followed by another.
5 Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements of beauty crosses our lives.
6 I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.
7 Romeo was a stout elderly gentleman, with corked eyebrows, a husky tragedy voice, and a figure like a beer-barrel.
8 If they were allowed their own way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce.
9 A dim sense of having taken part in some strange tragedy came to him once or twice, but there was the unreality of a dream about it.
10 Certainly no one looking at Dorian Gray that night could have believed that he had passed through a tragedy as horrible as any tragedy of our age.
11 But you must think of that lonely death in the tawdry dressing-room simply as a strange lurid fragment from some Jacobean tragedy, as a wonderful scene from Webster, or Ford, or Cyril Tourneur.
12 Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the opera, either alone or with Lord Henry, listening in rapt pleasure to "Tannhauser" and seeing in the prelude to that great work of art a presentation of the tragedy of his own soul.
13 I fancy that the true explanation is this: It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
14 The daily sacrifice, more awful really than all the sacrifices of the antique world, stirred him as much by its superb rejection of the evidence of the senses as by the primitive simplicity of its elements and the eternal pathos of the human tragedy that it sought to symbolize.