Oscar Wilde Quotes

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

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.

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

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 love, greed, lust, power).

What a miserable world. What colossal idiocy this war.

They are spinning and people are dying.

My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic - that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.

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.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

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.

People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.