Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should…

“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy," Mom told me. "You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”

— Jeannette Walls

There's comedy in tragedy, and tragedy in comedy. There's always light and dark in most jobs. Whether it's framed as a comedy, drama or…

— Harry Treadaway

“We never know what will happen next, what we will see, and what important person will come into our life, or what important person…

— Mark Sullivan

Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s],…

— Ang Lee

“Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama, if not…

— Mark T. Sullivan

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

— Nicholas Jarecki

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

— Luke McShane

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

— John Updike

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

— Barbara Stanwyck

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for…

— Elbert Hubbard

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

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this…

— Alvar Aalto

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal…

— Christopher Fry