Quote by Samuel Beckett

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes,

Summary

This quote suggests that there is a certain irony and absurdity in human suffering. It implies that there is a twisted humor in the contrast between the seriousness of unhappiness and the hilarity it can sometimes evoke. It points to the strange and peculiar aspects of life where unhappiness becomes a source of amusement, possibly highlighting the complexity and contradictions of human emotions.

Topics

Sadness

By Samuel Beckett

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The line between life or death is determined by what we are

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Death

The trouble with this country is that there are too many peo

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is...

America

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for oth

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Tools

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Thomas L. Masson

Alcohol/alcoholism

?At the end when you cut to the bone,we're all essentially t

?At the end when you cut to the bone,we're all essentially the same; we are women of great expectations

Women Inspirational

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what peop

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

Money

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger an

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Danger

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be t

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Veda Upanishads

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports

In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

Sports

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by ent

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mea

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

Poetry

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Learning