Comic Quote by Joseph Conrad

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

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Haruki Murakami

“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

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

— John Banville

“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

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

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

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Paul Auster

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

— John Sutherland Bonnell