This chapter questions the human need for consolation in the face of suffering. Philosophical and religious traditions have often sought to comfort by rationalizing or transcending tragedy, offering beauty, harmony, or salvation as responses to loss. Yet tragedy resists such closure. Drawing on classical and modern sources, the chapter argues that true consolation may lie not in escaping suffering but in confronting it. Tragedy teaches that life remains fragile, ambiguous, and finite, yet also meaningful through shared endurance. Philosophy, law, and politics should resist the temptation of false consolation, which risks denying responsibility and conflict. Instead, tragedy functions as a method of truth-telling, exposing injustice and mortality without evasion. Consolation, if it is possible at all, is found in solidarity, empathy, and the courage to endure together, rather than in metaphysical guarantees or aesthetic illusions of harmony.