“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
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Angela Carter book Wise Children
Source: Wise Children (1991), ch. 5 (p.213).
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Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.
“Farce may often border on tragedy; indeed, farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
20 August 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
The 2,000 Year Old Man (and sequels)
Variant: Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) writer and painter
"Inferior Religions" (1917), cited from Lawrence Rainey (ed.) Modernism: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) pp. 208-9.
“It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) Yiddish author and playwright