Quotes About Irony

In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

Explain me to myself, you'll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I'll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

No sense of the irony of human existence, that we are the highest form of life on earth and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

No weakening of the spirit. No sense of the irony of human existence, that we are the highest form of life on earth and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

We're steeped in gruesomely humorous ambiguity, a spectacle of ridiculous people doing awful things to total fools.

How often when they find a sage As sweet as Socrates or Plato They hand him hemlock for his wage Or bake him like a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View

In one of the era's many ironies, Claude Rouget de Lisle wrote a war chant for the Army of the Rhine and dedicated it to Lückner. But when the toughs from the south sang it fervently in Paris, it became La Marseillaise, the national anthem.

Brunetti shrugged. They believed him to be a member of the community of scholars...'Community of Scholars, she repeated , It would make the chickens laugh

I mean, this man was not /Voltaire/ we killed.

he was about as erotic as an old football coach.

I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.

Or--to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win.

It does all swing around strangely sometimes, doesn't it.

Penso che in questo caso dovremmo chiamarla ironia della sorte, più che divina provvidenza. Sì, ma perché vuoi darle un nome? E se fossero la stessa cosa?

It is another of consumerism's ironies that, although it functions like a mental trap, we often think of it as an escape.

A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

my mother never saw the irony of calling me a "son of a bitch

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

Dad said Aunty Sue was a godsend. If that was so, I wasn't surprised. God was probably happy to have got rid of her.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Better a gringo than a dead man," the lieutenant sighed, smoke escaping his nostrils. "Barely! But, yes, hell yes.