Concerned Quote by Steve Erickson

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

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

— Ellen Glasgow

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

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony…

— Moss Hart

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

Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the…

— Mike Duncan

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

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

— D.A. Wallach

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

— Justin Vernon

“...element of comedy is never completely eliminated from irony. But irony is something more than comedy. A comic situation is proved to be an…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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 embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

— Fred Tomaselli