Audience Quote by Anonymous

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable…

— Paul Di Filippo

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

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

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

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the…

— Amy Hill

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov…

— Ira Sachs

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

— James Thurber

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of…

— Dawn Powell

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is…

— Jennifer Stone

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

— W. C. Fields