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title: "9 Tragic Comic Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/life-is-deeply-tragic-and-also-very-comic-at-the-same-time-it-s/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dd/paul-auster-351_comic_life-is-deeply-tragic-and-also-very-comi_1358606.jpg)

> [Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/life-to-most-greeks-may-be-either-tragic-or-comic-or-a-mixture-of/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/helen-clark-macinnes-36631_comedy_life-to-most-greeks-may-be-either-tragic_478623.jpg)

> [What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-koontz/what-looks-tragic-might-be-comic-on-second-consideration-and-what-is/)

[Dean Koontz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-koontz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fd/dean-koontz-118_comic_what-looks-tragic-might-be-comic-on-seco_2247990.jpg)

> [“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/man-when-reduced-to-nothing-or-in-other-words-a-survivor-is-not/)

[Imre Kertész](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f57/imre-kert-sz-20119_dies_man-when-reduced-to-nothing-or-in-other_158352.jpg)

> [“Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-saroyan/remember-that-in-the-midst-of-that-which-is-most-tragic-there-is/)

[William Saroyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-saroyan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/william-saroyan-1743_comedy_remember-that-in-the-midst-of-that-which_787449.jpg)

> [The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-socratic-demonstration-of-the-ultimate-unity-of-tragic-and-comic/)

[George Steiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-steiner/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6da/george-steiner-4683_art_the-socratic-demonstration-of-the-ultima_1868139.png)

> [Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate. On…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imre-kert-sz/man-when-reduced-to-nothing-or-in-other-words-a-survivor-is-not-2/)

[Imre Kertesz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imre-kert-sz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/260/imre-kert-sz-20119_fate_man-when-reduced-to-nothing-or-in-other_1588670.jpg)

> [In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-stoppard/in-chekhov-everything-blends-into-its-opposite-just-fractionally-and/)

[Tom Stoppard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-stoppard/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/525/tom-stoppard-437_100-years_in-chekhov-everything-blends-into-its-op_2485733.jpg)

> [It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/it-is-tragic-comic-to-see-that-all-this-knowledge-and-understanding/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3b/soren-kierkegaard-578_comic_it-is-tragic-comic-to-see-that-all-this_1488305.jpg)

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