Tragedy And Comedy Quotes

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

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

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

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

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.

I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog­ress are real.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

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

But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go wrong. You could get into a war. You could find that you have members of your family on the wrong side of a political crisis. You could be raped. You could find that your child has gone crazy because of some horrible experience she's had.

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

The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'

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

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

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.

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

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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

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.

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

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

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

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

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.