Quotes About Irony

It would not have made a good book, I think. It would have been a folly. Its best telling was in these paragraphs: they contain all the ironies a tome would have contained, and waste less ink.

To my new friends. May misfortune follow you the rest of your lives, but never catch up.

Rami, the poet, the Sufi, said something that I will never forget: Beyond right and wrong there is a field, I'll meet you there." We were right and we were wrong and we met in a field. We realized that we wanted to kill each other to achieve the same thing, peace and security. Imagine that, what an irony, it's crazy.

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes. This excessive intention, or "hyper-intention," as I call it, can be observed particularly in cases of sexual neurosis.

Rapp pulled a woebegone face. "My doctor tells me I might never be able to have sex again." Anna tried her best not to smile. "The divorce papers will be on your desk in the morning.

If this is love, there is something highly ridiculous about it.

Death often is the point of life's joke.

Everything he said should be followed by a big sic

Death often is the point of life's joke.

at the peak of this human agonised, selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again - and "oh no," Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure - all would be shattered

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

All she'd ever wanted was to be good, so it was ironic that in order to do good, she'd had to become bad. She'd had to make everyone she cared about hate her. She'd had to lose everything, from her self-respect to her wings to her dreams of having friends and a family with Yenrieth, the only person she'd ever loved.

Remember that when he's slaughtering you. It's important that the guy strangling the life out of you is drop-dead gorgeous.

Oh, it does," he said, thinking of Azagoth and his pitch-black sense of humor. "You just don't want to be on the funny side of it.

FELIX: Whoever thought you'd die from having sex?

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum

Yet, ironically, the one thing most people think accountability groups do best is what they don't do well at all. They're not good at preventing sin.

guns don't kill people, husbands that come home early do

Look, I don't want you to do this because of what I said. I need you to know that I care." I would have laughed at the irony of my next words if they didn't sting as I spoke them. "But not enough, Collin. Not enough.

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

Some days I am all about the ironic gesture

I laugh because your pain is amusing.

I don't think I've ever been called beautiful by a boy in my life. It's definitely not an English-guy thing; in London, we pride ourselves on our irony and sarcasm. You're lucky if you even get a backhanded compliment from a boy. "Your hair doesn't look terrible today"--that kind of thing.