Alternatives Quote by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets…

— Yiyun Li

I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd…

— Martha Manning

“At some point, I figured that it would be more effective and far funnier to embrace the ugliest, most terrifying things in the world--the…

— Sarah Silverman

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

— Scott Adams

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the…

— Steve Coogan

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

— Christopher Guest

“These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally…

— Dean Koontz

I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the…

— James Howard Kunstler