Irony Quotes

705 Irony quotes by 566 unique authors

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews. — Catherynne M. Valente
Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were… — Patti Smith
I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see… — Orhan Pamuk
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a… — Maureen Johnson
Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well — Oliver Sacks
Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert… — Franny Billingsley
You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built… — Catherynne M. Valente
He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty sure irony isn’t… — Cassandra Clare
Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves. — Laini Taylor
Irony is the glory of slaves. — Czeslaw Milosz
You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life,… — Jack Gilbert
Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I… — John Boyne
One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for… — Gregory David Roberts
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different... — C.S. Lewis
Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late. — Dejan Stojanovic
I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just… — Haruki Murakami
Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man. — Sidney Sheldon
She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high… — Sylvia Plath
Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people… — Michel Houellebecq
A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for… — Christopher Hitchens
It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each… — Erin Gruwell
Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is… — Tan Twan Eng
The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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