Humor Quote by Erich Maria Remarque

“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony…

— Ian Bogost

“Irony was new to her and tasted oddly good, like a previously unavailable summer fruit. Soon, she and the rest of them would be…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.”

— Mark O'Connell

“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.”

— David Foster Wallace

“In an ideal world, a young man should not be an ironical person. At that age, irony prevents growth, stunts the imagination. It is…

— Julian Barnes

“sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on…

— Mark Leidner

“People need irony in order to build interpersonal trust based on self-knowledge, humor and critical thinking.”

— Hanzi Freinacht

“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or…

— Donna J. Haraway

“Irony is the sense of humor of fate.”

— Twila Vernon

“Irony deepens a person, helps them mature. It is the entrance to salvation on a higher plane, to a place where you can find…

— Haruki Murakami

“If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don't get irony either.…

— Geoffrey Hinton