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Tragedy And Comedy Quotes

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else. Aaron Allston
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
John Guare quote: "Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy."
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. John Guare
Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in faces—though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set... Herman Melville
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now. Virginia Woolf
... 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
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and..."
He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. Gilbert K. Chesterton
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. Joyce Maynard
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. Horace Walpole
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy... Joseph Campbell
Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them. I'm glad I found out in life. L. M. Montgomery
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the..."
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity. Miguel de Unamuno
Mel Brooks quote: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into..."
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks quote: "Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an..."
Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die. Mel Brooks
Jack Dee quote: "Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in..."
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

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