Quote by Max Beerbohm

“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

“Irony alone is damning. The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.”

— Anne Garréta

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

— Jamie Zawinski

“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

“It is when subjective consciousness maintains its independence of everything, that it says, 'It is I who through my educated thoughts can annul all…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the recovery of…

— Harold Bloom

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

— 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

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

“I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.”

— Donna Tartt

“The literal mind can never understand the ironic mind.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“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