Wyndham Lewis Quotes

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

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.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

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.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

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.

Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

I think it's awesome to be able to make people laugh.

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

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.