Contrast Quote by J. Michael Straczynski

You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only…

— Lucy Dacus

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

— Elaine Stritch

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change…

— Harold Ramis

Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to…

— Patrick deWitt

“People often say that the English are very cold fish, very reserved, that they have a way of looking at things – even tragedy…

— Michel Houellebecq

Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a…

— Zach Anner

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And…

— Sid Caesar

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

— Federico Fellini

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

— Mark Twain

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

— Haruki Murakami

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so…

— Woody Allen