'tragic existence' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a person's life or situation that is characterized by sadness, suffering, and misfortune. Example: "Despite his wealth and fame, the renowned actor's tragic existence was marked by a series of failed relationships and battles with addiction."
In a written submission to the court, he said that "innocent" Mary must be allowed to live out her tragic existence.
Instead, we are bound to live a tragic existence, trying to make sense of a world in which I am forced to write you six letters in a row, and receive no response.
You're dealing with sort of a tragic existence.
After condensing his tragic existence into an hour of depraved memories for the interviewer, the shackled Mr. History makes his way back to his lonely cell to await his pending execution.
I have no reason to undeservingly defend Michael Jackson and indeed those who read my book will discover that I have bookended our more than two hundred pages of transcribed conversations with a moral overview of Michael's life and how his tragic existence and untimely demise can only be redeemed by serving as a morality tale for the rest of America.
In this sketch from 1998, Ferrell offers excessively vivid descriptions of his tragic existence, "You talk about ancient beauty and classical forms, but if you ask me, you wouldn't recognize a real beauty if it was outside in the parking lot, waiting to give you hepatitis".
G. Wells, a pupil of Huxley's, was well aware of this, but gave lemurs a tragic underground existence as the Morlocks in "The Time Machine," feasting on the Eloi, the pitiful remnants of humanity still on the earth's surface).
For the most part, Thomas's fans won't be disappointed by Our Tragic Universe, which continues the philosophical discussion about existence started in Mr Y and has a thoughtful cast of characters.
In the new novel, Our Tragic Universe, Scarlett Thomas has one of her characters reflect on a wild cosmological formula for endless existence.
Cultures more attuned to the tragic dimensions of existence glimpsed this truth long ago.
The novel is suffused with a tragic sense of existence, and the unbreachable distance between one consciousness and another.
