Tragedy And Comedy Quotes - Page 2

• Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Tragedy, Comedy

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

  Luke McShane

  Games, Tragedy, Elements

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• The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Pain, Men

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• LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Tragedy, Body

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.548, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Tragedy, Together, Mixing

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 26, 2011.

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• Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

  John Guare

  Tragedy, Comedy, Humiliation

  John Guare (2002). “The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome”, p.5, The Overlook Press

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• The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'

  Toby Jones

  Dream, Thinking, Giving

  "Toby Jones on playing Alfred Hitchcock and improvising with Danny McBride". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Grief, Expression, Laughing

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.104, The Floating Press

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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• Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

  Alvar Aalto

  Design, Tragedy, Shapes

  Alvar Aalto, Karl Fleig, Elissa Aalto (1990). “Alvar Aalto: 1963-1970 (3. Aufl.)”

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