Comedy Quote by Susan Sontag

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

— W. C. Fields

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

— Pico Iyer

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

— Phyllis Diller

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of…

— Eckhart Tolle

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“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

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable…

— Paul Di Filippo

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

— John Guare

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal…

— Christopher Fry

“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”

— Joseph Campbell