Contemporary Quote by John Green

The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and politically. Irony…

— Simon Critchley

While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony…

— Steve Erickson

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

“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

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

— Barbara Kruger

I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes…

— Anonymous

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.

— D.A. Wallach