Elif Safak Quotes

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

For me, I think humour is something important.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

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.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

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

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

Humor is my default mode.

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

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

Funny is when you're serious.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.