Irony Of Life Quotes

• The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Success, Inspire

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• A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Success, Independence, Credit

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• Why sunset is more colorful than sunrise? It's an irony of life saying, 'sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes.

  Unknown

  Goodbye, Sunset, Sunrise

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• There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Two, Long, People

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• Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.

  Tan Twan Eng

  World, Irony, Accepting

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• Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Treasury of Humorous Quotations". Book by Evan Esar, p. 103, 1951.

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• The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspiring, Tired, Helping Others

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.65, Harmony

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• ...it's just another one of those things I don't understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Funny, Stupid, Unique

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• I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Irony, Moments, Wrong Things

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• One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Gratitude, Blessing, Appreciate

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Ironic, Rejuvenation, Irony

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• Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Soul, Baptism, Ironic

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• Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.

  Elizabeth Reyes

  Trying, Irony, Ready

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• It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Artist, Stupidity, Rebel

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• Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

  Janette Rallison

  People, House, Trying

  Janette Rallison (2009). “All's Fair in Love, War and High School”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• ... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Irony, Life Is, Forget

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• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Gratitude, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (1970). “The Subjection of Women”, p.34, MIT Press

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• A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Ignorance, Play

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.174, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cousin, Aunt, Two

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.30, Harlequin

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• I had some people who disagreed with me here or there - but nothing as strong as I've received, you know, coming to America. That is the irony of life, so I guess - I always tell people - I go I feel like in a strange way, I'm home. You know, this doesn't shock me. This is just - I've come a long way to be in a place that is extremely familiar to me.

  Trevor Noah

  Strong, Home, America

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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