Quotes about irony-of-life

We will all be destroyed whether we like it or not. I say let's like it.

My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option.

No one knew much about the Twenty-Eighth Infantry. It was not a glamour outfit. They knew about the Big Red One and the Screaming Eagles, about the Eighty-Second Airborne and Hell On Wheels, but not about Twenty-Eighth Infantry. The name was met with a certain silence, as if he was in a room full of Harvard graduates and told them his degree was by correspondence.

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.

... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.

Call it Irony or destiny of life, but the fact is I failed to make a living from what 'I loved doing the most' nor did I justify for what I was paid for!

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories...

Isn't it ironic that when you accept sadness is an inevitability of the human condition you feel happier?

What must I say, that you don’t know on your own?

Dream big!But not so big that it becomes a mess, and you may never reach reality.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path.

Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they say.""What?" Vimes' sudden rage was like a thunderclap. "Who says that? When has that ever been true? It's never been true! It's the kind of thing people without power say to make it all seem less bloody awful, but it's just words, it never makes any difference -

I find it really fascinating that while in an attempt to look beautiful we tend to go for what's easily acceptable.But when it comes to portraits, it is only our facial flaws that make that picture worth its while, setting it apart.Isn't it amazing to find that beauty is something that makes us alike? While our flaws are the real contributors to our uniqueness.

We always feel the brunt of the blow dealt to us, but hardly ever do we feel the impact we have on others. Why is that?

You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I say bullshit. There's been twelve TV documentaries, three movies and eight books about me. I'm more popular than any of these designed-by-pedophile pop moppets littering the music television and the gossip columns. I've killed more people than Paris Hilton has desemenated, I was famous before she was here and I'll be famous after she's gone. I am the mainstream. I am, in fact, the only true rock s

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Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.

I suppose longevity requires giving up life's pleasures, one by one, until there's nothing left.

Had I only known my lettersWould be of such importanceI’d empty myself on paperEvery single morning’And it was for such reason,as she read his little stanza,that she decided to stamponefinalletter:‘Every single morningI’d empty myself on paperYou were my greater importanceThat’s why I wrote you letters.

I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference.

Irony we want to dance like robots and want robots to dance like us.

It's ironic how your comfort zone can be tiring sometimes.

monotony kills the heart. Ironically, monotony is what keeps the heart working.

Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!

Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death. (Page 94)

The irony of life is like a brothel without prostitutes--but don't you worry, prostitutes don't need of a brothel, to exercise their profession.

Reword and its an Innovation. Irony