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  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Design   Tragedy   Shapes  
    Alvar Aalto, Karl Fleig, Elissa Aalto (1990). “Alvar Aalto: 1963-1970 (3. Aufl.)”
  • 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.

    Time   Sarcasm   Thinking  
  • We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

    Tragedy   Looks   Comedy  
    1952 The Devils of Loudun, ch.11.
  • Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

    John Guare (2002). “The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome”, p.5, The Overlook Press
  • 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.

    Life   Death   Creativity  
    "Cells". Book by John Byrum (p. 23), 1988.
  • 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.

    Children   Crazy   War  
    Source: www.neh.gov
  • There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

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

    John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.238, Random House
  • I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

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

    Drama   Tragedy   Littles  
    Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.129, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

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

    Funny   Death   Suicide  
    "The 2,000 Year Old Man". Animation, Comedy, 1975.
  • 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 (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.104, The Floating Press
  • 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.

    Soul   Tragedy   Body  
    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.548, Wordsworth Editions
  • This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

    Love   Failure   Thinking  
    Letter to Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory, 16 Aug. 1776
  • 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.

    Pain   Real   Thinking  
    Source: www.vanityfair.com
  • 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.

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

    Life   Wisdom   Atheist  
    Horace Walpole (1929). “The castle of Otranto”
  • The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

    Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.168, Courier Corporation
  • Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

    "Question time: Jack Dee". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2009.
  • The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

    Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)
  • Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on
  • Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

    Life   Wise   Dream  
  • Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

    Funny   Humor   People  
    Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.213, Random House
  • What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

    Art   People   Laughing  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

    Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 26, 2011.
  • 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, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.317, Univ of California Press
  • 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.'

    Dream   Thinking   Giving  
    "Toby Jones on playing Alfred Hitchcock and improvising with Danny McBride". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.
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