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It was always a delicate balance, life and death, comedy and tragedy. — Chris Kyle

Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch '21 Grams.' I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever. — Lykke Li

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

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity. — Eckhart Tolle

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

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances. — Harold Ramis

Storytelling is a landscape, and tragedy is comedy is drama. It simply depends on how you frame what you're seeing. — Lauren Groff

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

Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy. — Kilroy J. Oldster

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa. — Sid Caesar

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. — Mel Brooks

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

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

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

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. — John Guare

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. — Margaret Cho

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

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 without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant. — Jesse Kellerman

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time. — Artie Lange

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

The rendering of my thoughts, emotions, and experiences is part comedy and part tragedy as well as history, for life is such a mingling. — Karen Harper

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

It has been said that life is a tragedy to those who think and a comedy to those who feel. — Bruce Watson

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again. — Libba Bray

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance? — John Updike

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

Classical ornament here and there accentuated the contrast; caryatides and carved masks of comedy or tragedy looked — G.K. Chesterton

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. — Mark Twain

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. — Eric Idle

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. — Jeff Bridges

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy. — Debasish Mridha

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. — Jeannette Walls

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

The Gold Rush(1925) affirmed Charlie Chaplin's belief that tragedy and comedy are never far apart. — Steven Jay Schneider

Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think. — Moliere

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard. — John Lithgow

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. — Vivien Leigh

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. — Erma Bombeck

Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. — Horace Walpole

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

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

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent. — Mason Cooley

Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die. — Mel Brooks

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins. — Frank Frankfort Moore

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity. — Miguel De Unamuno

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

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

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