The phrase "a tragic memory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a recollection or event that evokes sadness or sorrow.
Example: "The photograph brought back a tragic memory of the day we lost our beloved pet."
Alternatives: "a sorrowful recollection" or "a heartbreaking remembrance."
He has one tragic memory: In 1961, a tank rolling down the driveway toward a parade struck a brick pillar, and a 12-year-old acquaintance was killed in the shower of bricks.
I've attended these reunions every five years, not only to see my former classmates, but also to revisit the painful and tragic memory of one friend in particular.
These tragedies, compounded by earlier, unforgettably tragic memories, convinced Lee to make, if not a new life, a different one onee where the press is gentler; where her past, good or infamous, is not daily revisited; and where she can be surrounded by so many of the things she grew up with and learned to love about Europe.
Everyone's going to have a different response – maybe joy, maybe sadness, some might have tragic memories, for others it might be their childhood home.
Tragic memories, one month on Traditionally, April is a time of new hope as children start a new school year in Japan.
In his music, Philthy Rich, 29, is boastful and blunt, borrowing from tragic memories of his youth in the Seminary in East Oakland, a neighborhood rife with guns and drugs.
With tragic memories of the over 3,000 innocent lives lost and a raging war on terror, September 11 has made an impact on our nation that has forever changed the face of not just New York or the United States, but the world itself.
People had plenty of painful reasons for leaving New York after Sept. 11, among them tragic memories and overwhelming fear.
Its rich red soils, the cotton-quilted hills and uplands, the rushing, turgid rivers, all are alive with tragic memories of the Civil War," he enthused in "Land of Corn and Lobsters".
