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“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
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Nelson Mandela
(1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Also quoted in Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future: tributes and speeches (2003), edited by Kader Asmal & David Chidester. Jonathan Ball, p. 332
1990s, Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference (1992)
Context: Yes! We affirm it and we shall proclaim it from the mountaintops, that all people – be they black or white, be they brown or yellow, be they rich or poor, be they wise or fools, are created in the image of the Creator and are his children! Those who dare to cast out from the human family people of a darker hue with their racism! Those who exclude from the sight of God's grace, people who profess another faith with their religious intolerance! Those who wish to keep their fellow countrymen away from God's bounty with forced removals! Those who have driven away from the altar of God people whom He has chosen to make different, commit an ugly sin! The sin called Apartheid.
“Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”
Horace Walpole
(1717–1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician
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.”
Charlie Chaplin
(1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
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.”
Margaret Cho
(1968) American stand-up comedian
Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight
“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
Jean Racine
(1639–1699) French dramatist
“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
Molière
(1622–1673) French playwright and actor
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”
Jean de La Bruyère
(1645–1696) 17th-century French writer and philosopher
La vie est une tragédie pour celui qui sent, et une comédie pour celui qui pense.
As quoted in Selected Thoughts from the French: XV Century-XX Century, with English Translations (1913), pp. 132-133, by James Raymond Solly. This may conceivably be a misattribution, because as yet no definite citation of a specific work by La Bruyère has been located, and the statement is very similar to one known to have been made by Horace Walpole in a letter of 31 December 1769: The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
(1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago