Quotes About Irony

Oh there once was a woman and she kept a shop selling trinkets to tourists not far from a dock who came to see what life could be far back on the island. And it was always a party there always different but very nice New friends to give you advice or fall in love with you which is nice and each grew so perfectly from the other it was a marvel of poetry and irony

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?' I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. 'What irony?' I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. 'That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of power themselves.

You know, Emily Dickinson is here too. All she does is write poems about life all the time. The irony! She keeps asking me to read them. I refuse, of course. The days are long enough as it is.

Sam Keen points out that Zen masters spend years to reach an enlightenment that every natural child already knows—the total incarnation of sleeping when you're tired and eating when you're hungry. What irony that this state of Zen-like bliss is programmatically and systematically destroyed.

Hideous, and yet comic too; for the spectacle of these feverish cranks toiling to create a new heaven and a new earth and thinking themselves the leaders of mankind, when they were dancing like puppets at the will of a few scoundrels engaged in the most ancient of pursuits, was an irony to make the gods laugh. I asked who was their leader. Macgillivray said he

The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.

What's ironic is that those who don't have the courage to take risks and those who do, experience the same amount of fear in life. The only difference is that those who don't take chances worry about trivial things.

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

The greatest irony of love is letting go when you need to hold on and holding on when you need to let go.

My ex boyfriends facebook status said 'Suicidal and standing on the edge.' ...So I poked him.

It's kind of ironic that in life the person that brings out the best in you and makes you strong, is actually your weakness.

Don't fall in love. Fall off a bridge, it hurts less.

Yeah, my boyfriend does this REAAAALLYY cute thing..where he doesn't exist.

Why is it that the greatest irony of love is letting go when you want to hold on, and holding on when you need to let go? You can never find the right person if you can never let it go of the wrong, but at the same time the moment you feel like letting go, you remember why you held on for so long.

I find it ironic how people talk of love and saying, If you love someone, let them go. No. If you loved someone, you wouldn't have fu..ed it up enough to the point where you have to let them go.

Life is too ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence!

Life is too ironic to understand fully. It takes sadness to know happiness, noise to distinguish silence and a broken heart to find true love.

You'll never guess what I got you for your birthday because I didn't get you anything for your birthday.

Friends stab you in the back, boyfriends stab you in the heart but bestfriends poke you with a straw.

I find it funny when people who arent friends in real life are friends on Facebook.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Funny how it was supposed to be to celebrate our friendship but turns up ending it. Ohhh the irony.

It's so ironic. The people in my life who say, 'I'm always going to be here for you.' are the ones that walk away first.