Susan Sontag Quotes

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

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

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

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

What's nice with comedy is that you know it's working if it's funny.

I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

Even the most tragic moments can have moments of 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.

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.

I really like comedy because it is really fun to be in - even though you are playing it straight.

There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.

I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in drama would be something that's absolutely terrible, but in a comedy it's absolutely terrible but so funny.

It's extremely important for people to be informed and to be educated and to know what's going in their community and in their country, but every now and then you just kind of want to turn the brain off for a little bit and just laugh and be silly.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.