When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

If in the middle of an argument I suddenly fall silent it does not mean you have won... No it means you should probably…

— Hussein Nishah

“Rather than a great tragedy, the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization.”

— Rodney Stark

Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.

— Julian Tuwim

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

— Dennis Lehane

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening,…

— Cate Blanchett

I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.

— Mariette Hartley

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to…

— Paula Patton

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

— Mike Birbiglia

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

— Signe Baumane

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the…

— Roberto Benigni

“A hush in the trees. Just the rustle of leaves in the breeze. But no birds, mockingjay or other. Peeta’s right. They do fall…

— Suzanne Collins

“interrupted, he would fall silent, then began his sentence again in exactly the same place to tell it in his own way, at his…

— Mar Preston

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

— Jose Saramago

It's a victory when the weapons fall silent and people speak up.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

— Chief Dan George