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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. — Charlie Chaplin

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy. — Alvar Aalto

The purpose of life is to endure tragedy as well as comedy in hopes of sharing a story with a happy ending. — Jes Fuhrmann

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. — Aldous Huxley

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. — Luke McShane

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. — Aldous Huxley

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. — Christopher Fry

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible. — Jill McCorkle

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. — Olivia Thirlby

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

And in the vine of the divine,
There is a fine line;
Between tragedy and comedy,
That a man cannot define. — Stephan Attia

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. — G.K. Chesterton

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary. — Horace Walpole

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other. — Jack Dee

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief. — Elbert Hubbard

The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. III — Aristotle.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. — Barbara Stanwyck

In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy. — Agatha Christie

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder. — Jennifer Stone

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight. — James Thurber

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. — Robert Breault

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy. — Nathan Fillion

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. — Philip K. Dick

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is. — Ellen Page

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness. — Bernard Malamud

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. — Wislawa Szymborska