If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.
I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.
My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.
It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructionsinformation. It's a tragic place.
It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.
We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.
There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.
What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own.
He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.
life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.
Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.
I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.
The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.