Life is such a tragicomedy.

“I asked him if there was a way in which he could accept just my desire to learn, as if I were an Indian.”

— Carlos Castaneda

“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer anyone who…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do…

— Haruki Murakami

“Siqua metu dempto casta est, ea denique casta est; quae, quia non liceat, non facit, illa facit”

— Ovid

“Hamm: What's he doing? (CLOV raises lid of NAGG's bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.) Clov: He's crying. (He closes lid, straightens up) Hamm:…

— Samuel Beckett

“ESTRAGON: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? VLADIMIR: (impatiently). Yes, yes, we’re magicians. But let us persevere…

— Samuel Beckett

“Each woman's story, Edith's especially but Rose's too, is a kind of English story told over and over in fiction and film but rarely…

— Christopher Hilliard

“In America, the glass is neither full nor empty. It is buy one, get one free.”

— Ali Sheikh

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us…

— Dennis Miller

I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.

— Tracy Morgan

“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I wouldn't want people to laugh at me. That's why I have to give all that I can, and at least produce something that…

— Zhao Wei

Joking about violence is not funny.

— Perez Hilton

You can laugh at me, but I understand show business.

— Ksenia Sobchak

'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy.

— Shane Dawson