Perfume Genius Quotes

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

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.

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.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

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

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.