Quotes About Irony

Her ironic inflection fills me with the familiar impulse to simultaneously kiss her deeply and strangle her until she turns blue. Neither is an option at this juncture, so I have to content myself with slamming the trunk harder than necessary.

Elmsbrook is the perfect town for a serial killer, and I mean that in the best possible way.

There is irony, and then there's my life.

I am the star in my own Shakespearean farce, never managing to sleep with one woman without wanting the other. The gods of sex and irony are playing hockey, and I am their unwitting puck.

Reality, as frightening as it is, is very very funny.

No mais fundo do seu coração ele tinha pena da desgraça de todos. E rindo, e ridicularizando, era que fugia da sua desgraça. Era como um remédio.

fue una de las raras batallas en que los muertos victoriosos tienen peor entierro que los vencidos

Mein Mann ist zwar Inhaber einer Bank, aber wir sind sehr arm‹, sagte sie, derart unverschämt, dass ich Lust hatte, sie erschießen zu lassen.

Little by little I came to realize the strange irony of events. I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. Others think of a garden or of a palace. There I was, the center, in a way, of nine hundred thousand books in various languages, but I found I could barely make out the title pages and the spines.

I sat down and looked at the menu and thought how ironic it was that back then starving artists came to cafes like these because they lived on wine and street pigeons to survive, and now the same cafes are famous because of them and no starving artist can afford to eat there. It's hard to have an existential crisis when a glass of wine costs more than nine dollars.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

My brother and I were then longing for a new life, we dreamt about something enormous, about everything beautiful and sublime; such touching words with and still fresh, and a third without irony.

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

And his fondness of people matched his low opinion of them.

Can I get you anything? A drink? A fresh change of clothes? A membership card to Hypocrites International?

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

An acceptable proportion must be maintained whether in a novel, therapy or everyday life — between pain and other aspects of living. Humor, irony, diversity of interests, a sense of adventure, mystery, love — all are story elements passed over by those people who are most imprisoned within their pain. Such persons can be only temporarily interesting, either in a novel or in life itself.

I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is.

Take a perfect circle, caress it and you'll have a vicious circle.

The words seemed so ridiculous. Only the flies benefited.

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

The huge irony is that the more the gospel is offered in consumer terms, the more the consumers are disappointed.

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.