Quotes About Irony

She's as funny as a toothache

The ironic thing about the narrowing-down of neurosis is that the person seeks to avoid death, but he does it by killing off so much of himself and so large a spectrum of his action-world that he is actually isolating and diminishing himself and becomes as though dead.10 There is just no way for the living creature to avoid life and death, and it is probably poetic justice that if he tries too hard to do so he destroys himself.

He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO Tonight, sent by the police, they come to serenade me.He laughed, then tapped his stomach.-I cannot laugh yet. As musicians they are fatal

Show irony and pity.

The spectacle of its governing is at present more comic than tragic; but the tragedy is very close.

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

irony is that, while secular leadership has become blatantly spiritual, Christian leadership has become blatantly (and blandly) secular.

Most of us get turned on at night by the very things that we'll demonstrate against during the day.

It is ironic that some people, like Guy, will minimize the emotional involvement to lessen the offense ("It meant nothing!"), while others, like Charmaine, will highlight the emotional nature of the bond for exactly the same purpose ("Nothing happened!").

This is funny," she says without a trace of laughter.

Almost five hundred years ago, John Wilkins, a philosopher and bishop, pushed heavily for the written language to adopt an upside-down exclamation point at the end of a sentence to indicate irony. Think of how many online feuds that could have prevented.

I didn't want to look at him through rose-colored glasses, knowing all along that what I was seeing could very well be untrue, and yet when I was with him, I welcomed my refusal to search for and find flaws. The irony was I was often sickened by the way my girlfriends made excuses for their husbands, even the way I sometimes made excuses for Ronnie. Of course, we were really making excuses for ourselves, finding ways not to look like fools.

Unintentional puns are the best.

Popatrz jeno. KoÅ›cióÅ', karczma, bordel, a w Å›rodku miÄ™dzy nimi kupa gówna. Oto parabola ludzkiego ?ywota.

Che importa se viviamo più di loro? Al nostro inverno non seguirà una primavera, non rinasceremo. Ma sia tu sia io siamo attratti da questi fuochi, sebbene la nostra presenza a questa festa sia una beffa malevola ed empia.

No ale ?atwiej w grotesk? zamieni? wielkie gesty i wielkie idee ni? ma?? ide? ciep?ej wody w kranie. Na wielkich gestach ?atwiej si? wy?o?y? i prawica mistrzowsko to odgrywa. Jedzie jak na bananowej skórce.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break.

My mistake was to lie in his arms moist-eyed with tenderness and gratitude, when the correct stance would have been a certain detachment, an irony, as if to imply that he would have to love me to a much higher standard to convince me that I had to take him seriously. I should have found such a tactic odious, but now I see that it is sometimes necessary to meet withdrawal with withdrawal, dismissal with dismissal.

Some time ago she had tried to substitute irony for longing, and had almost succeeded. That was why this alternative life so nearly appealed to her.

I do know happy marriages, including mine. But why write about something like that? I can't imagine writing, without irony, about people who are happy all the time.