The tragedy for comedians is there’s nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It’s almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job. – Jimmy Carr
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy – and pushing the line as much as possible. – Jill McCorkle
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise. – Cameron Crowe
It would be a tragedy if the remarkable international coalition against terrorism, successfully marshalled in the aftermath of 11 September, were to fragment over a unilateral U.S. strike against Baghdad. – Charles Kennedy
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
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there’s a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it. – Anthony Jeselnik
No, no, I didn’t know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians. – Alan Hovhaness
Well I would say that we’re regular people first of all and we’re normal and it’s obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we’re not immune to tragedy. – Brett Favre
The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate. – Arthur Quiller-Couch
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. – Abba Eban
Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can’t know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners. – Arthur Smith
Even the greatest poets can’t express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances. – Andrei Codrescu
Occupation is the Palestinian people’s tragedy, but also Israel’s present. We must liberate both people from the occupation. – Ayman Odeh
The existence of the Taliban, in my view, is a tragedy for Afghanistan. We as Americans need to understand our role in helping bring that tragedy about. So I think it’s important to look at the stories about why these people are fighting. – Anand Gopal
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. – Brenda Ueland
But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections. – Andrew Coyle Bradley
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That’s the comedy that I like. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else. – Aaron Allston
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: ‘Moby-Dick.’ – A. N. Wilson