Every man Quote by G.K. Chesterton

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“True manhood lies in living amongst those who wish to witness your downfall, while true courage is found in sharing your laughter to bring…

— Giridhar Alwar

“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.”

— Imre Kertész

“Man can recover from epic tragedy, he can live through immense hardship and endure the great injustices of life, but take away his hope…

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

“Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them.”

— Henrik Ibsen

It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Of a sane man there is only one safe definition. He is the man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Men can laugh God out of schools, out of books, and even out of their lives, but man cannot laugh Him out of his…

— Dan DeHaan

“How unhappy are the lives of men! How purblind their hearts!”

— Epicurus

“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Even the most comic moment contains an element of melancholy; even the deepest tragedy harbors a trace of the ironic.”

— Christine Montross

“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe