H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Life is such a tragicomedy.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy.

I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in terms of Chekhov comedy. Chekhov called his plays comedies. There's always a mixture of a laugh with sadness. So the plie to the laugh is sadness.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

I always felt like the best comedy came out of sadness, and some of my favourite shows growing up - a lot of my influences - have these very sad characters and treat that sadness seriously while also being very funny.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.