Quotes About Irony

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

La situación actual se parece un poco al chiste que hacían los trabajadores de la antigua Unión Soviética: «¡Nosotros hacemos como que trabajamos y usted hace como que nos paga!»

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends. —Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory 1.

Ironically, we practically have to be sainted to get through the adoption process, but any fool can spawn and have a baby, tra la la.

Cursing, Kyle opened the bottom cabinet and found a bottle of scented lotion. Cherry Blossom. What irony.

an edgy eagerness to please that his irony couldn't conceal.

I thought u said u could swim like a fish -A dead one!

It would be a shame," Jameson commented, "if we were related." He spared another smile for me, slow and sharp-edged. "Don't you think?

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

On m'a soufflé mon dernier coin de soleil : C'est de la farce.

But – should the play Prove piercing earnest – Should the glee – glaze – In Death's – stiff – stare – Would not the fun Look too expensive! Would not the jest – Have crawled too far!

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.

Let's enjoy our misery before we say it's fun.

Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube? It's always cubes with you, noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. What's wrong with a nice sphere?

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.     142

La vie est une tragédie : autant la vivre en comédie.

Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.

Mislove manages the neat trick of having two meanings that are almost opposite each other. While this is not an uncommon phenomenon (for example, left can refer to both having departed and remaining), words in this category are usually significantly more boring than mislove. Monodynamic

There can be funny moments during sad stories

so we could have roses in December. Someone did not add, So we could have blizzards in June and food poisoning when there was nothing to eat.

The fact that I'm sitting here in the chilly leaves imagining ways to get rid of the boy I loved so much I brought him back from the dead is so ridiculous, so horrifying, it's almost funny. In an unbelievable, black humor way that's not really funny at all.

I tried very hard not to ponder the horrible irony that I was too ugly to love, and too ugly not to violate.

Someone once called fate "the only cosmic force with a tragic sense of humor,