Black comedy Quote by Minette Walters

“Death is funny in that it brings out the best and the worst in people. It casts light on the truth and makes life…

— Allison DuBois

“Death is still the terrible yet amusing entity that establishes a compromise between memory and a sense of humor, and between the sense of…

— Carlos Monsivais

“As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life…

— André Malraux

“What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite…

— Jack Vance

“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”

— Molière

“Anyone with a sense of humor can see that life is a joke, not a tragedy.”

— George Sheehan

“A life was a life. She'd been orphaned at an age to internalize death as poor material for a joke. And likewise, salvation.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedom had vanished. I knew then…

— Belinda Jeffrey

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon…

— William Saroyan

“Laugh. We’re all going to be dead anyway some day. So while you should try your hardest to make the most of your life,…

— Peter Atkins

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel...but a comedy for those who think”

— Walpole