Quotes About Irony

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." —MEL BROOKS

Because of my underpants?" Ivan asks. "Chiefly because of Pontius Pilate." [from Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita ]

I once saw a note on a Stasi file from early 1989 that I would never forget. In it a young lieutenant alerted his superiors to the fact that there were so many informers in church opposition groups at demonstrations that they were making these groups appear stronger than they really were. In one of the most beautiful ironies I have ever seen, he dutifully noted that, by having swelled the ranks of the opposition, the Stasi was giving the people heart to keep demonstrating against them.

It is surely ironic to fuss over how fresh the fish being fed to him are and how "authentic" his tank vegetation is when he is isolated, held captive, and put on display. The ritual of care disguises the violence, just like the preparation of sushi itself.

The incident illustrates the distinct absence of a communist sense of humor.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

Lets ignore our mothers' well-meant advice.

We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits. This way we beat pain to the punch. We will not simply sit/stand/lie like suckers when the practical joke finishes, the push, the pendulum. We will not let ourselves be caught off-guard by joy and its evil conjoined twin, irony.

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name... and they say golf is a quiet game

Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.

Evening news is where they begin with "Good evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

Why is it so hard for women to find men that are sensitive, caring, and good-looking? Because those men already have boyfriends.

The difference between in-laws and outlaws? Outlaws are wanted.

You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misnamed. We're not so much trying to help people as we're trying to help ourselves. So let's be clear about this. So these are - in my view, they're cold calculations of national security and not aid programs.

One of the funny lines that Daniel Bryan said in a promo is that he made fun of me for driving in an SUV, and he asked why such a small man like myself needs to drive an SUV, but we're standing literally eye to eye, and I'm like, 'Ummm.'

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

Free as air; that's what they say- free as air. Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!—yet

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.