Comic Quote by Horace

“Always be comic in a tragedy”

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Christine Montross

“And in the vine of the divine, There is a fine line; Between tragedy and comedy, That a man cannot define.”

— Stephan Attia

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

— Imre Kertész

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

— Aristotle

“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain and absent…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Humanity as a concept is neither comic nor tragic.

— Megan Ganz

“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.”

— Sara Baume

“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”

— Joseph Campbell

“But on the whole the impression was neither of tragedy nor of comedy. There was no describing it. It was manifold and various; there…

— W. Somerset Maugham

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

— Edith Hamilton

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney