Character Quote by Horace Walpole

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable…

— Paul Di Filippo

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the…

— Roberto Benigni

“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

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of…

— Dawn Powell

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of…

— Joseph Campbell

“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

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of…

— Eckhart Tolle

“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

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

— Nicholas Jarecki

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce…

— Aristotle