Quotes About Irony

We chase the mysteries we can't solve, the ghosts we will not meet, the cajolery of the stories we must fabricate ourselves, the ironic icon.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Idiot spelled backward," said Phil, cackling.

A bald man felt the sun's fierce rays Scorch his defenseless head, In haste to shun the noontide blaze Beneath a palm he fled: Prone as he lay, a heavy fruit Crashed through his drowsy brain: Whom fate has sworn to persecute Finds every refuge vain.

ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

Juxtaposition, you can't handle the juxtaposition!

I'm a sort of like post-modern vegetarian, I eat meat........Ironically.

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions

Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

It is, and has been, and will forever be, this world of ours, a fucking joke.

Such a weird belief. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he's gonna want to see a fucking cross, man? "Ow." Might be why he hasn't shown up yet.

Jim Bakker spells his name with 2 k's because 3 would be too obvious.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

From time to time, I meet someone who will say something like, "I am not afraid of dying." I don't buy it. Everyone is afraid of dying. It's part of the instinct that helps us survive as a species. It's a crucial feature of human evolution. It's also, I strongly suspect, a crucial reason why so many people have trouble believing evolution is true. Life can be ironic like that.

Ironically, John Wilkes Booth often rented this very room during the previous summer. In fact, as recently as three weeks ago, Booth lolled on the very bed in which Lincoln is now dying.

Politics is a thing that is kind of the same over and over and over again. But we have to find new ways of poking fun at it and letting the air out of people and satirizing things that are worthy of satire.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?