Bacon Quote by Charles Dickens

“It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation,…

— Charles Dickens

“How could anything be the same? The red of blood lay over the market road in slick pools mingled with a yellow spread of…

— Kiran Desai

The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side.…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their…

— Oscar Wilde

“I wonder whether certain dreadful events, of the sort this picture is full of, are not so incalculably rich in the possibilities of moral…

— James Agee

“For there enters an element of Comedy (in the full sense of that great word) whenever we watch the death or passing of a…

— Hilaire Belloc

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought,…

— Mark Rylance

“Such is the summary style in which the Typees convert perverse-minded and rebellious hogs into the most docile and amiable pork; a morsel of…

— Herman Melville

“Even apocalypse looks less dire when viewed over a plate of bacon.”

— Stephanie Stamm

“There's something about courting the darkness that makes some people see the truth in raw, twisted ways, as though they were shining a black…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“let's start a magazine to hell with literature we want something redblooded lousy with pure reeking with stark and fearlessly obscene but really clean…

— E.E. Cummings

“Low comedy, empty heroics and pointless death”

— Kurt Vonnegut