The Human Comedy Quotes
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I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now.
— Samantha Shannon
The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If people like you, they'll give you a hand. But if they trust you, they'll give you their heart. And heart to heart, we can face anything together.
— Steve Goodier
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.
— Lena Dunham
Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.
— Patton Oswalt
The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.
— Greg Sestero
Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.
— Michael Malone
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.
— Alistair Cooke
[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.
— Claire McCaskill
Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street.
My people. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa
My people. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa
I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.
— Shanola Hampton
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
You finish sending a text and relax your arms and lower your legs and when animals open up like that, they want to fuck.
— Caroline Kepnes
I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.
— Malik Yusef
Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.
— Dov Davidoff
The world keeps spinning because you heartbeats exist
— Brittainy C. Cherry
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
— David Hockney
I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.
— Hector Elizondo
The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!
— Susan Ward
The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella.
— Cassandra Clare
The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.
— Richard Condon
The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt.
— Dov Davidoff
I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.
— Mindy Kaling
So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman
— Charlaine Harris
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.
— Washington Irving
Human life is a comedy-one must play it seriously.
— Alexandre Kojeve
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
— Dane Cook
I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
— Stephen Mangan
Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status.
— C.Z. Hazard
If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?
— Camille Flammarion
The prairie skies can always make you see more
than what you believe. — Jackson Burnett
than what you believe. — Jackson Burnett