Quotes About Irony

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

amid the endless celebrations of diversity, the greatest irony of all remains that the one thing people cannot bring themselves to celebrate is the culture that encouraged such diversity in the first place.

So at the 'Women's March' in London in January 2018 one of the placards waved by a young woman with pink hair read 'No Country for Old White Men'.59 One irony was that one of the Socialist Worker banners beside her read 'No to racism'. The sadness was that the young woman was waving her placard just beside the Cenotaph, which admittedly commemorates a lot of white men, but white men who never had a chance to grow old.

I cast a spell to make me Juliet. It worked. But I forgot that Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. I got what I asked for.

They weren't really looking for repentance; postmodern irony would do. When

Reality had a habit of pulling coincidences no one would accept in fiction

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

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

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything would be perfect.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

I've been doin' drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.

Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

This world is a comedy, not Life.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.