Quotes About Irony

Es curioso como a veces se puede llegar a ser tan inocentemente cruel.

Sometimes you're about as funny as a busted condom.

Of course, from an absurdist perspective, all deaths are a punch line: the good news is, you're born; the bad news is, you die. Life is a death sentence.

We take a beautiful little boy and we put him in a diaper and we give him a lethal weapon and we say LOVE. Which makes absolutely no sense.

We're so far from having any control over what happens to us, it's not even funny. Well, that's not true, actually. It is funny.

Freedom is just another word for wretchedness.

It is ironic but nonetheless true that for developing countries the best way to protect against the future effects of climate change is currently to burn more fossil fuels and thereby accelerate their economic development.

Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.

The smell of hot popcorn drifted upward from the concourse below, lingering in the warm Californian air like an atmospheric irony, and a Jumbotron directly in front of me displayed a blandly handsome announcer seated behind a curved desk emblazoned with DARPA's logo: a sports broadcast mise-en-scène from some speculative future, vaguely fascist, in which the machinery of national defense had become a spectacle of mass entertainment.

Of course, the irony is that the kind of centralized administrative state Croly advocated, and which surrounds us today and is managed by a relative handful of architects, is all but immune from the popular will and completely impervious to direct popular sovereignty. In

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. —James Thurber

Charlie Chaplin exploited frustrations and fears about rapidly growing automation to make people laugh. It's ironic that IBM once used his tramp character as an implied advertising testimonial for computers, because Chaplin's character didn't promote machines—he ridiculed them.

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

Didn't that just figure? One of the most

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.

Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?