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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.

— Paul Di Filippo

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

— Dawn Powell

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

— Ellen Page

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

— Horace Walpole

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

— Stephen Mangan

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

— Ed Asner

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

— Vivien Leigh

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

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

— Aldous Huxley

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

— George Pierce Baker

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter