George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

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.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

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

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.

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.