Quotes About Divine comedy

God writes comedy but sometimes has a slow audience.

God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

our lives are best understood, and our sorrows are best borne, when they are recognized as "playing" within a drama that God himself entered, in the person of his Son, so that the human drama might become, through the redemption, a divine comedy, not a cosmic tragedy or absurdity.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.

It's the Divine Comedy, not the Divine Tragedy.

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

Whenever I make a blasphemous joke, I always say that I believe in a God big enough to know that I'm just kidding. How can God not know that I'm kidding? And also, how could God be offended at a thing that he made not believing in him?

Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades"—bodiless souls trapped between life and death.

I spent a lot of time as a volunteer in a nursing home in Amherst last summer. I was reading Dante's Divine Comedy to an old man, Mr. Shulman. One day, I asked him where he was from. He said, 'Just east of here, the Rockies.' I said, 'Mr. Shulman, the Rockies are west of here.' He did a voilà with his hands, and then said, 'I move mountains.' That stuck with me. Fiction either moves mountains it it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass. -Interview with Larry McCaffery (1993)

I spent a lot of time as a volunteer in a nursing home in Amherst last summer. I was reading Dante's Divine Comedy to an old man, Mr. Shulman. One day, I asked him where he was from. He said, 'Just east of here, the Rockies.' I said, 'Mr. Shulman, the Rockies are west of here.' He did a voilà with his hands, and then said, 'I move mountains.' That stuck with me. Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass. -Interview with Larry McCaffery (1993)

We are all only God's joke here having the same punch line.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

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