“Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.” PeopleLife IsSufferingDiesBornKnownComedyDogTragicContinuingFleasBorn To Die Author:Frederick Lenz
“Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.” DifferentDiesUniverseComedyStageHundredCents Author:Jean de La Fontaine
“Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it's very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, all of us are terribly sad for the families and people of France and anybody in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. It's not the way it's supposed to be.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayImportantShowsTodayDiesComedyJokesTragedySupposed To BeFranceParisTonightThink TwiceComedy Shows Author:Conan O'Brien
“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.” HumansDiesComedyTragedyProfoundVery Sad Book:Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television
“Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.” PeopleArtFeelingsSpiritDiesLiteratureEnergyInterestConsciousnessPrinciplesComedyLowsJokesTragedyMurderCharityEntertainmentWitGenerosityExplanationSentimentsApathyCriteriaMeannessDullnessPathosIrreplaceableGood HumorGood NatureEither OrLive And Let LiveDivergenceConcurrence Book:Nobody Here But Us Chickens Source: Nobody Here But Us Chickens
“To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.” ChildrenMadeStillsRealDeathDiesHoursChristianityComedySuicideDrawingChosenWitnessAccomplishedOppositionRight TimeFarewellWretchedEuthanasia Book:Twilight of the Idols Source: Twilight of the Idols
“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.” KnowsPlayDiesComedyThirdsTragedyCome UpTwists Author:Joan Rivers
“I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.” PeopleStatesRealityWould BeDiesPoliticsLeadershipWorkWalksForgetUnitedWatchesUnited StatesComedyImagineHuman NaturePolicyRiversAskingIndividualityIdeologyBoredVotingSenateAmendmentsDiplomacyChamberForget ItCivilityBangingWatch MeBored To Death Author:Chris Christie