Quotes About Irony

But when a god             strikes harm, a worse man often foils his better.

O gra?ani otadžbine Tebe, evo Edipa, znalca ?udesne zagonetke i prvog ?oveka, ?iju sre?u niko nije gledao bez zavisti! Gledajte u kakav ponor sudbe grozne pade on! Zato nikog, dan dok onaj poslednji ne do?eka, ne?u proslavljati kao sre?na, pre no doplovi kraju veka svog a nikakav ne pogodi ga jad.

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

Life under the Soviet system was often funny, absurd really, especially for children.

Anybody that makes fun of me, I'm like, 'Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman'

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

Fair enough…No inhaling battery acid, " I smirk. "We can't breathe batteryacid, can we?

Call it Irony or destiny of life, but the fact is I failed to make a living from what 'I loved doing the most' nor did I justify for what I was paid for!

Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky.

There's a rich irony, in other words, in the insistence that magical thinking is less useful than scientific thinking, because magical thinking is exactly the form of human thought that deals with the realm of motivations, values, and goals that scientific thinking handles so poorly.

The irony here, and it's not a small one, is that our culture is anything but bereft of myths. Whatever the sources of our many problems, a myth shortage is emphatically not among them.

Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

Irony and disproportion are all God's way. He keeps us off balance with his unpredictable connections. We think we know how to do something big, and God makes it small. We think that all we have is weak and small, and God makes it big.

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

The irony lost on all, though, is that the Syrian regime is quietly keeping alive the traditions that Moubayed lamented had vanished, if not through his preferred method of legalization, then at least by refraining from interfering in the private daily conduct and morality of its citizens. Moubayed told me that the regime, despite the furor caused by his article, had not reacted to it at all, either positively or negatively.

The bitter irony of the story told here is that in 1990, no Islamic society on earth was better positioned to reject jihad and realize a modern, reformed version of Islam than Bosnia.

The supreme irony in this is that though written texts were never at the heart of pharaonic culture, those that have survived have played a major role in the construction of modern ancient Egypt. Such a fundamental role, in fact, that ever since Jean François Champollion deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs in the early nineteenth century, the study and translation of pharaonic texts has continuously distorted a broader understanding of that ancient culture.

It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.