Comedy Quote by Wislawa Szymborska

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

— Phyllis Diller

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

— W. C. Fields

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

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

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

— Pico Iyer

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change…

— Harold Ramis

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is…

— Jennifer Stone

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

— Ellen Page

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

— Vanna Bonta

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

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

— Mason Cooley