Comedy: The Stuff of Tragedy
describe the cosmic humor that's hidden in the problem you're currently struggling with
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
Your sanity depends on you finding the comedy in the chaos
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
Sometimes, things are serious. Not everything needs to be turned into a joke. As Anhedönia said, we can still make jokes and laugh, but we’ve lost the ability to know when to stop – and it’s time we learned how.
Halima Jibril • Ethel Cain says we are in an irony epidemic – is she right?
“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.” ―Voltaire
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
On the whole, she felt, life was more comedy than tragedy. Nearly everything that happened had its comic element, not too well buried, either. Sooner or later one could find something to laugh at in almost every situation. That was what, in the last analysis, could keep folks from going mad. The truth was, if you got a good Tragedy out of a lifetim
... See moreMargo Jefferson • Maud Martha
Schopenhauer once described comedy as “seriousness concealed within a joke.” The inverse is philosophy.