Quotes About Irony

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today's life.

Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.

He was thinking of the irony of friendship—so strong it is, and so fragile. We fly together, like straws in an eddy, to part in the open stream.

Indeed, who would have supposed that tolerance, sympathy, and a sense of humour would inhabit that militant form?

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

Like many hard-bitten cynics, he cried easily and was always falling into fluttery love with his type, clean-cut Yalies.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Si no fueran unos sanguinarios hijos de puta, serían para cagarse de la risa.