Fate Quote by Thomas Hardy

“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain and absent…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself…

— Joseph Conrad

“Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making fine messes…

— Siri Hustvedt

For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here…

— D. H. Lawrence

“The tragic sense of life is ironically not tragic at all, at least in the Big Picture. Living in such deep time, connected to…

— Richard Rohr

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,…

— Caroline Leavitt

If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy…

— Washington Irving

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

— Edward Abbey

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

— Andre Breton

The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're…

— Scott McClanahan

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

— Christine Montross

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

— Paul Auster