Comedy Quote by Susanne Katherina Langer

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitable of destiny can…

— William Forster Lloyd

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his…

— Nate Silver

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of…

— Dawn Powell

“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

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for…

— Elbert Hubbard

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents…

— Aristotle

“Tragedy is not born in the destiny of a bad man, but rather destiny born into a tragic world.”

— J.E. Plemons

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost…

— Whittaker Chambers

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is…

— Paulo Coelho