Quotes About Irony

Why sunset is more colorful than sunrise? It's an irony of life saying, 'sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes.'

There are people who are dancing through Life and others who are crying through Life. The irony is that Life is the same, what we do is purely our Choice.

Life is so confusing, what we want we don't get, what we get we are not satisfied with, what we expect never happens and what we hate generally repeats!

The fates were laughing at me, at Athena, at all of us. It was their favorite bitter joke: those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats.

I find the folly of men amusing

La estupidez del ser humano me hace gracia.

C'est la folie humaine que je trouve amusante.

I loaded on enough sarcasm to clog up a black hole.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Five minutes before his death, Monsieur de La Palisse was still alive.

It's the irony or maybe the tragedy of being a fan that it's not enough to let the music enter you like a drug or define and shape the world for you. You also want to somehow touch it and have it affirm you in more direct ways, whether you're playing a riff like Chuck Berry or singing like Buddy Holly or buying Keith Richards's guitar—or actually meeting your idols. In

My grandmother] was so humble of heart and so gentle that her tenderness for others and her disregard for herself and her own troubles blended in a smile which, unlike those seen on the majority of human faces, bore no trace of irony save for herself, while for all of us kisses seemed to spring from her eyes, which could not look upon those she loved without seeming to bestow upon them passionate caresses.

There is a poetic import to the phrase 'without a shadow of a doubt': in all probability, there is no doubt without a shadow. Doubt is the shadow cast when something gets in the way of the light. Ironically, doubt itself often brings greater light because of the shadow it casts.

the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked.

But then he tripped and one of the land worms ate his face and he died anyway.

She had the expression of the cat who ate the canary and then threw it up in her owner's favorite shoes.

I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.

temptations of wealth, power, and prestige. But this final novel defies categories. If it's a parable of corruption and redemption, as Steinbeck suggests in his epigraph, it's also a lesson in Darwinian survival. The novel insists on a symbolic and highly ironic framework—the first half takes place on Easter weekend in April 1960 and the second on the Fourth of July weekend that same year. Yet the book is also realistic, set in Steinbeck's own

Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim

Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family!

I come from a stupid family. My uncle heard that most deaths occurs within ten miles of the house...so he moved.

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.