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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 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
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
And in the vine of the divine,
There is a fine line;
Between tragedy and comedy,
That a man cannot define. — Stephan Attia
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
It has been said that life is a tragedy to those who think and a comedy to those who feel.
— Bruce Watson
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
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
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
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
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