Comedy Tragedy Quotes
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Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.
— Daniel Prokop
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
— Sholem Aleichem
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
— Charlie Chaplin
The purpose of life is to endure tragedy as well as comedy in hopes of sharing a story with a happy ending.
— Jes Fuhrmann
If I got a paper cut, that's a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.
— Woody Allen
You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy.
— Robyn Schneider
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.
— Phyllis Diller
Storytelling is a landscape, and tragedy is comedy is drama. It simply depends on how you frame what you're seeing.
— Lauren Groff
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
— Angela Carter
Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.
— Buster Keaton
It has been said that life is a tragedy to those who think and a comedy to those who feel.
— Bruce Watson
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
— James Thurber
I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now i wish i could distinguish them.
— John Le Carre
As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Comedy and tragedy are basically the same thing. Comedy is just the art of making light of life's sufferings. Turning all your pain into a joke.
— Katie Kacvinsky
You can always turn a tragedy into a comedy by sitting down.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.
— Chris Crutcher
Author is the prisoner of his thoughts .
— Rajiv Bakshi
Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.
— William Alfred Quayle
Tragedy is an unfinished comedy.
— Joseph Campbell
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
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
— Pico Iyer
The preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both ...
— Frederick Buechner
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
— Barbara Stanwyck
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
— Christopher Fry
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
— Aldous Huxley
I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
— Paula Hawkins
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time. But I would really settle for less fucking tragedy." ~ Jon Stewart
— Chris Smith
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
— Susan Sontag
God always comes up with a third act twist
and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy. — Joan Rivers
and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy. — Joan Rivers
A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.
— Debasish Mridha
Comedy = tragedy + time.
— Carol Burnett
The comedy of the wicked,
Is the tragedy of the saint;
But the saint's comedy,
Is the wicked's remedy. — Stephan Attia
Is the tragedy of the saint;
But the saint's comedy,
Is the wicked's remedy. — Stephan Attia
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
— Ellen Page
I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
— John Lithgow
The Gold Rush(1925) affirmed Charlie Chaplin's belief that tragedy and comedy are never far apart.
— Steven Jay Schneider
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
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
— Jeannette Walls
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
— Erma Bombeck
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
— Wislawa Szymborska
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
— Jeff Bridges
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
— Eric Idle
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.
— Agatha Christie
I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.
— Eric Drooker
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
— Nathan Fillion
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama.
— Maryln Schwartz
Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.
— Frank Frankfort Moore
I can't go on, I'll go on.
— Samuel Beckett
A life like this develops the comedy sense. You can't play tragedy while you're living it.
— Edna Ferber
Comedy is tragedy plus timing.
— Bob Odenkirk
Life is much more smooth when you have your story complete, be it a tragedy or a comedy.
— Upasana Banerjee
When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
— Mason Cooley
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
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
— Frederick Buechner
Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?
— Orson Scott Card
Classical ornament here and there accentuated the contrast; caryatides and carved masks of comedy or tragedy looked
— G.K. Chesterton
Comedy is tragedy revisited.
— Phyllis Diller