Humor Quote by Miriam Toews

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

Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of…

— Milan Kundera

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

— John Banville

Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions of right…

— Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of…

— Lee Hall

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

— Paul Auster

The tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective

— Arnold Beisser

That's why our comics are important: they're pointing things out and laughing at the same time. There have been horrible, horrible times in history.…

— Lynne Tillman

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

I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so…

— Woody Allen

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

— Christine Montross

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

— Dean Koontz