Mario Monicelli Quotes

Most comedy comes out of misery.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

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.

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

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.

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Whole families used to starve in their cabins without their plight being discovered until the stench of their decaying corpses attracted notice.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.