Definitions Quote by Karen Marie Moning

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

— Fred Tomaselli

We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised…

— Timothy Morton

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

— Frank Sinatra

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

— John Updike

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in…

— Maureen Johnson

“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

“What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love? And why do we become such jerks…

— Louis Chunovic

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

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

— Soren Kierkegaard

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