“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”

“[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”

“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”