Comedy Quote by Chris Crutcher

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

— Irvin S. Cobb

“Tragedy is just comedy that hasn’t come to fruition. One day we will laugh at this. We will laugh at everything.”

— Matt Haig

“Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.”

— Mel Brooks

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”

— Mel Brooks

“We're tragic actors in a world of comedy.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

— Phyllis Diller

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

— Mason Cooley

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”

— Molière

“Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama, if not…

— Mark T. Sullivan

“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren’t there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if…

— Siri Hustvedt