Irony Quotes - Page 7

• Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?

  Heather Brewer

  Vampire

  Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.146, Penguin

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• Doug returned five minutes later and shook his head. "Sorry kid. She's single, but she doesn't think you're her type. She's into the Goth and vampire scene. You're too mainstream for her." I was sipping a glass of water and nearly choked on it. "That," said Peter, as soon as Doug was gone, "is what we call irony." "How is that possible?" exclaimed Cody. "I am a vampire. I should be exactly what she wants." "Yeah, but you don't look like one," I said. If Gabrielle had been a Trekkie, he might have had a shot tonight.

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Kids, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.8, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I'd loved in so many bodies, but never one I loved like this. Never one that I craved in this way. Of course, this would be the one I'd have to give up. The irony made me laugh, and I concentrated on the feel of the air that popped in little bubbles from my chest and up through my throat. Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body, making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer? I couldn't remember one.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Laughter, Giving Up, Simple

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• My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn’t allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn’t bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you’ll sense there’s an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Senior, Girl, Mother

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.6, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Past, Night

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

  Vaclav Havel

  Distance, Laughing, Perspective

  "War Through a Poet's Lens" by Donald P. Kommers, www.americamagazine.org. April 22, 2000.

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• Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to lounge around and decide with no consequences. For every moment you waste deliberating today, the Oak King will be in the hands of my torturers, experiencing the most excruciating pain. Your delay extends that agony.” “Oh, irony,” murmured Dorian.

  Richelle Mead

  Kings, Pain, Hands

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1403, Zebra Books

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• Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.

  Claudia Gray

  Said, Contrast, Happens

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• One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.

  Walker Percy

  Self, Peculiar, Cosmos

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Humans, Built, Knows

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.313, Macmillan

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• Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

  Patti Smith

  Compassion, Moments, That Moment

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.271, A&C Black

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• I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pride, Sarcasm, Expression

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• Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  And Love, Pathology, Distrust

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.53, e-artnow

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• It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

  Winston Churchill

  Brother, Children, War

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

  Maureen Johnson

  Looks, Kind, Forget

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• Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

  Oliver Sacks

  Feelings, Paradox, Wells

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.

  Franny Billingsley

  Names, Rose, Battle

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.105, A&C Black

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• He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty sure irony isn’t a deadly sin.” “I’m pretty sure it is.” “Lust,” she said. “Lust is a deadly sin.” “And spanking.” “I think that falls under lust.” “I think it should have its own category,” said Jace. “Greed, envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry, lust, and spanking.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Thinking, Should Have

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

  Laini Taylor

  Humanity, Quality, Benevolence

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• Irony is the glory of slaves.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Slave, Glory

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• You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Running, Pain, Real

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf

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• Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

  John Boyne

  Coward, Tumbling, Determined

  John Boyne (2011). “The Absolutist”, p.285, Random House

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• If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

  Barry Lopez

  Inspirational Life, Responsibility, Adults

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.529, Open Road Media

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• Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Men, Prisoner, Every Man

  Sidney Sheldon (1992). “Three complete novels”, Wings

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• She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

  Sylvia Plath

  Emotional, Looks, Ridiculous

  Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

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