Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
quote by Bryant H. McGill
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
quote by Wislawa Szymborska
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
quote by Aaron Allston
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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
quote by Vivien Leigh
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Sudden Realization
A realization came by
So sudden and abrupt
I imagined I could fly
And all emotions erupt
A realization made by the view
Of your radiant face
Only appreciated by a few
The face, the face that makes my heart pace
A realization so surreal
A realization so joyful
The realization that I feel,
'Twas so beautiful
Let us not make this realization
Come to naught
For all I have seen in this elation
Was all that's been in thought
A realization came by
So wonderful and joyous
From it, we shy
Let's not, but venture the word, "us"
poem by Leonardo David Tay
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I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!
quote by Leslie Nielsen
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Smile
Laughter floats through the air
Like smiles with wings
Inescapable giggles
Make you laugh too
When days are long and sad
When depression is overwhelming
You never know what a smile
Or a laugh
Will do
poem by Autumn Winds
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We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
quote by Helen Clark
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But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.
quote by Mark Rylance
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Had Cell Phone Been
Had cell phone been,
In Shakespeare's age;
Would there have been,
Deaths in tragedy's page?
If Romeo and Juliet had,
Their personal hand set,
They could have talked,
And never been so upset!
Juliet must have given,
Romeo, missed call, on and on,
Romeo, rining her back,
Would not drink the vial of poison.
It might not turn into a tragedy.
Rather we could tell it tragi-comedy!
poem by Nilakshi Das
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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
quote by Aldous Huxley
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
quote by Angela Carter
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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
quote by Carol Burnett
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
quote by La Bruyere
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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
quote by Aldous Huxley
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A poet who always wrote limericks
Was known as a terrible cleverdick.
They said that her verse
Was sarcastic and terse
Or silly and smart-arsed - you take your pick!
quote by by Janice Windle
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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
quote by Steve Martin
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
quote by Horace Walpole
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