--- title: "5 Tragedy Farce Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 5 Tragedy Farce quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Tragedy Farce sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/365/lev-shestov-12374_comedy_after-a-tragedy-a-farce-philosophy-enter_33482.jpg" --- > [“After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-shestov/after-a-tragedy-a-farce-philosophy-enters-into-her-power-and-the/) [Lev Shestov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-shestov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/365/lev-shestov-12374_comedy_after-a-tragedy-a-farce-philosophy-enter_33482.jpg) > [They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines." "Maybe that’s why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-watterson/they-say-the-world-is-a-stage-but-obviously-the-play-is-unrehearsed/) [Bill Watterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-watterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb9/bill-watterson-728_actor_they-say-the-world-is-a-stage-but-obviou_609772.png) > [“Wise men have regarded the earth as a tragedy, a farce, even an illusionist's trick; but all, if they are truly wise,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-anton-wilson/wise-men-have-regarded-the-earth-as-a-tragedy-a-farce-even-an/) [Robert Anton Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-anton-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbe/robert-anton-wilson-1198_nature_wise-men-have-regarded-the-earth-as-a-tr_1217452.jpg) > [Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-watterson/calvin-they-say-the-world-is-a-stage-but-obviously-the-play-is/) [Bill Watterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-watterson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e1/bill-watterson-728_ads_calvin-they-say-the-world-is-a-stage-but_3019176.png) > [History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/history-repeats-itself-the-first-as-tragedy-then-as-farce/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e5/karl-marx-399_farce_history-repeats-itself-the-first-as-trag_3207727.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tragedy-farce/#itemlist", "name": "Tragedy Farce Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“After a tragedy, a farce. 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Is it too much if I ask, tentatively, that we agree to look upon it as a circus, a touring carnival wandering about the sun for a record season of four billion years and producing new monsters and miracles, hoaxes and bloody mishaps, wonders and blunders, but never quite entertaining the customers well enough to prevent them from leaving, one by one, and returning to their homes for a long and bored winter's sleep under the dust?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Anton Wilson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-anton-wilson/wise-men-have-regarded-the-earth-as-a-tragedy-a-farce-even-an/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbe/robert-anton-wilson-1198_nature_wise-men-have-regarded-the-earth-as-a-tr_1217452.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbe/robert-anton-wilson-1198_nature_wise-men-have-regarded-the-earth-as-a-tr_1217452.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbe/robert-anton-wilson-1198_nature_wise-men-have-regarded-the-earth-as-a-tr_1217452.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Wise men have regarded the earth as a tragedy, a farce, even an illusionist's trick; but all, if they are…” — Robert Anton Wilson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Calvin: They say the world is a stage. 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