“Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?”
Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs
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“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.”
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer
“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
Source: The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
Source: Alvar Aalto: 1963-1970 (3. Aufl.)
Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”
Source: Wise Children
“Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”
Source: The castle of Otranto
“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.”
“Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.”
Source: Table-talk
“Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.”
Source: The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957
“Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.”
Source: 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