Life = tragic comedy?

Question

"The life of every individual, viewed as whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy, but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy... Thus, as if fate wished to add mockery to the misery of our existence, our life must contain all the woes of tragedy, and yet we cannot even assert the dignity of tragic characters, but, in the broad detail of life, are inevitably the foolish characters of a comedy." -Schopenhauer. Do you think so?

Answer 1

it is a notion only

Answer 2

Life is what you believe it is. If you live in regret, you live in hell. If you live in genuine happiness, you live in heaven. The "world" is both, we define our own world. The world is different for every person because no two people have the same experience in the same way.
Still I have to admit that in the end existence itself is an ironic comedy. We kill ourselves throughout life trying to be something we aren't, while the solution of what we want to be is always right in front of us. Why don't we take it? Why don't we solve all the world's problems in one go? This is because we don't want to. We like to live in ignorance because it gives us reason to exist. What would we live for if all the world's problems dissapeared? We hate each other because we love each other and vice versa.
The real funny part is that when it comes down to it, all this struggling we go through to better our physical reality is meaningless. Our lives are just one link in the collective chain of existence. We are all meaningless and what we all will accomplish will someday just fade away to dust. Thus, instead of trying to struggle with the physical we should focus more on a collective scale. Instead of living in a world bowing down to some sort of deity, maybe we should realize we are all part of "God" and thus little gods/godesses in our own right. Still this brings us to that little annoying ignorance factor again. We like to blame things on some deity not us, but take all the credit when something good happens (God took out his wrath on us/God "blessed" me for my hard work). A deity makes us ignorant, makes curl up with our little blankets and suck our thumbs, and, sadly, we like it that way. This is humanities greatest tragedy. It is okay, though, because you people can suck your little thumbs, I will leave my mark because I know who I am, an free being not a human being. The universe didn't mean to define us, we did that.

Answer 3

I so agree with this point of view that life can be a tragic comedy.

The example of vincent van gogh is a fine illustration. While alive, his art was not recognised as its styles differed from the popular arts of his time. He lived poorly, could not find love and his art was not appreciated. In the end, this man died with deep sorrows, cutting off his ear and putting a gun to himself. The irony however is that his works today are worth thousands, kept in musuems and revered by art lovers. Is it fair? or just funny?

Answer 4

Life is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Answer 5

Yes, I do think so and I might add that if one doesn't learn to laugh amongst tragedy, life would be ever so somber and unappealing.

Answer 6

I look at life "this" way. Life "without" comedy, would "be" a tragedy! Perhaps that's what they mean when they say, "she
died laughing!" hahaha!

Answer 7

umm...well its a mixture of a tragic comedy and a comic tragedy...depending on whether you are optimistic or pessimistic.

Answer 8

Life = a big cosmic joke

Answer 9

Life is a journey
Leading to nowhere
Make one wrong turn
And you still get there

Answer 10

sometines tragedy, sometimes comedy, sometimes a concert, sometimes boredom...

Answer 11

Without God, absolutely.