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Quotes About Divine comedy

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. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed.
~ Joseph Campbell
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.
~ Joseph Campbell
The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are ridiculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.
~ Ray Bradbury
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
~ Dante, The Divine Comedy
If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.
~ James K. Morrow
You'd think God invented stupidity the same day he came up with the penis.
~ Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Everyone loves a comedy, my dear. It is divine.
~ Rawi Hage
Why did God have to make Mo'Nique a good actress? What was God thinking when he decided to give Mo'Nique acting chops. Now we have to endure Mo'Nique comedy specials.
~ Andy Kindler
After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.
~ Bill Kelly
One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.
~ Bob Hope
We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.
~ Frank Wedekind
I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.
~ Corey Feldman
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
~ Bill Bryson
Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.
~ Arthur Miller
There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.
~ Harold Bloom
God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.
~ Joan Rivers
God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
~ H. L. Mencken
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
~ Voltaire
Commentaries and studies have been multiplied upon the Divine Comedy, the work of DANTE, and yet no one, so far as we know, has pointed out its especial character. The work of the great Ghibellin is a declaration of war against the Papacy, by bold revelations of the Mysteries.
~ Albert Pike
Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
~ Sam Kinison
It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.
~ Woody Allen
It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.
~ Woody Allen
Bir yatakta do?ar, bir yatakta ölürüz. ?nsan soyunun ilginç dramlar?, gülünç komedileri ve korkunç trajedileri oynad??? gerçek sahnedir buras?. Çiçeklerle süslü bir be?iktir; A?k Tanr?ças?'n?n taht?d?r; mezard?r.
~ Xavier de Maistre
The last line of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante is faced with the vision of God Himself, is a sentiment that is still easily understandable by anyone familiar with so-called modern Italian. Dante writes that God is not merely a blinding vision of glorious light, but that He is, most of all, l'amour che move il sole e l'altre stelle...'The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert