Quotes About Irony

One of the great ironies of the modern age," he begins, "is that the advancements of mankind can make us more powerful and yet more vulnerable at the same time. The greater the power, the greater the vulnerability. You think, rightly so, that you are at the apex of your power, that you can do more things than ever before. But I see you at the peak of your vulnerability. "The reason is reliance. Our society has become completely reliant on technology.

The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man, to distruct courses the world actually could come to an end.

Irony--it's funny until it happens to you.

definition of sarcasm is "a cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

It's a funny world, Hobbes. True. But it's not a hilarious world.…unless you like sick humour. The world is probably funnier to people who don't live here.

The fly lands on the swatter. The movie runs backwards and catches fire in the projector. This species apes us well by talking only about itself

though they know in their adult hearts, even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bed for his appalling behavior, that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids, their wives are Dopey Dopeheads and that they themselves are Mr. Sillypants.

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

He laughed out loud. He was trying to remember if his memory had been altered. The epitome of irony and futility.

Stalin } took care always to say the opposite of what he did, and do the opposite of what he said.

if you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best... and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.

Ironically, their shocking success also awakened the very forces that eventually would marginalize them within the empire they had created.

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

Let me not be sentimental, let the distance in time give me humor and irony and a shrewd, if loving, eye.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

People who do not understand irony cannot understand fiction.

I wonder now if she noticed the irony of it all: how she had left a world in order to rebel, to fight for what she considered right, and now, now...

Nu börjar livet! utropade Erik Göransson och dog.

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

It came to me, as I walked, how bitter the irony of the Book had been which had said: Herein the Truth. For it had a truth of its own in its bleached barrenness. What was truth except something which faded, lost its shape, grew unreadable and indistinguishable, at last a blank page for men to write on what they wished.

I'm quaking in my boots," he deadpanned.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.