Character Quote by Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

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

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

— Dean Koontz

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

— Socrates

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

— Harvey Cox

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

— John Banville

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the…

— Twyla Tharp

That's the difference between a great comic and a bad comic - one has great instincts and has a lot of compassion and can…

— Ali Wong

“Always be comic in a tragedy”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most…

— William Saroyan

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

— Paul Auster

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

— Christine Montross

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

— Horace