Block Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

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

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

— Michael Pollan

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

— Gaston Bachelard

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

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

— Justin Vernon

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

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

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

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