Appeals Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

“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

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

— Wislawa Szymborska

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come…

— Aristotle

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of…

— Miriam Toews

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of…

— Gilbert Gottfried

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

— Dean Koontz

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

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of…

— Horace Walpole

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

— Phyllis Diller

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

— Christine Montross

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights…

— Pauli Murray