Melancholy Quote by Christine Montross

“Always be comic in a tragedy”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making fine messes…

— Siri Hustvedt

“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

“Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most…

— William Saroyan

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself…

— Joseph Conrad

“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Irony is the sense of humor of fate.”

— Twila Vernon

“There can be funny moments during sad stories”

— Ammon Shea

“The rendering of my thoughts, emotions, and experiences is part comedy and part tragedy as well as history, for life is such a mingling.”

— Karen Harper

“Catastrophe and exuberance are often partners in the dance of irony.”

— Jeff W. Horton

“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely…

— G.K. Chesterton

“...element of comedy is never completely eliminated from irony. But irony is something more than comedy. A comic situation is proved to be an…

— Reinhold Niebuhr