“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”
Source: The Glass Castle
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Jeannette Walls 50
American writer and journalist 1960Related quotes
“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Primetime interview (Jan 2004)
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
“Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”
Letter to Anne, Countess of Ossory, (16 August 1776)
A favourite saying of Walpole's, it is repeated in other of his letters, and might be derived from a similar statement attributed to Jean de La Bruyère, though unsourced: "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think". An earlier form occurs in another published letter:
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel — a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
Letter to Sir Horace Mann (31 December 1769)
Variant: The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
As quoted in his obituary in The Guardian (28 December 1977)
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.”
Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight
“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”