Comic Quote by Socrates Download Open image “The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.” — Socrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comic Happiness Joy Laughter Light Light and shadow Lying Philosophical Shadow Tragic
What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it. — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character. — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents. — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
When you think of comic book readers, you never think of the brown girl, and I was that. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
“The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
