Aldous Huxley Quotes

Life is such a tragicomedy.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

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

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

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

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

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.

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

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

You get annoyed about things in real life, and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

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

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

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

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.