Comic Quote by Joseph Conrad

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself…

— Joseph Conrad

“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth.”

— Joseph Conrad

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to…

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Haruki Murakami

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic…

— Henry Louis Mencken

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so someone bursting…

— Milan Kundera

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

— John Banville

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

— Christine Montross

“Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making fine messes…

— Siri Hustvedt

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

— Paul Auster