Human beings Quote by Ian MacKaye

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

— David Byrne

“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

There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the…

— John Green

A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at…

— Douglas Coupland

I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then…

— Jens Lekman

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

— Patricia Piccinini

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

— Moss Hart

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and…

— David Foster Wallace

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

— Fred Tomaselli

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

— Laurell K. Hamilton