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Quotes About Irony

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't
~ Don Marquis
The marvels of today's modern technology include the development of the soda can, which when discarded will last forever ... and a $7,000 car which when properly cared for will rust out in two or three years." --Guido Sarducci
~ Don Novello
Now he's standing beside five other cops watching the chimp climb up the wall of the Museum of Man. That's what I need tonight, Chris thinks, a chimp with a firearm and a sense of irony.
~ Don Winslow
I am cuckolding myself
~ Donald E. Westlake
And every year, Ronald McDonald takes the Pulitzer.
~ Donald Hall
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
~ Carrie Fisher
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
~ Karl Kraus
The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
~ Tim Minchin
One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
~ Robert Browning
It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.
~ Terry Pratchett
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
~ Johnny Carson
It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
~ Ernest Becker
Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?
~ David Niven
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.
~ Carl Van Vechten
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
~ John Hurt
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.
~ Javier Marías
Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.
~ Tan Twan Eng
Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
~ Lester Bangs
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.
~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.
~ Emo Philips
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.
~ David Cronenberg
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
~ Ambrose Bierce