Accepting Quote by Haruki Murakami

“Everything in life is metaphor… We accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. Irony…

— Haruki Murakami

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

— Fred Tomaselli

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

— Gaston Bachelard

“But irony deepens a person, helps them mature. It's the entrance to salvation on a higher plane, to a place where you can find…

— Haruki Murakami

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able…

— Werner Herzog

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

— Soren Kierkegaard

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

— Martin Parr

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

— Barbara Kruger

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

— Manuel Puig

“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

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

— Jamie Zawinski

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

— Soren Kierkegaard