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Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.
Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.
Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.
Irony sucks, you know?"
Roger nodded. "That it does. Safely confined to the pages of novels, it's an interesting rhetorical device; encountered loose in the real world, it's a beast with steel claws and mirrors for eyes.
There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs ... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.
Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.
You know what I find ironic? My homophobic mother offers
you her cabbage rolls as a truce and you respond by asking her if
it was 'tacit approval' to suck my cock."
"She shoved a phallic symbol my way and told me to eat it.
Irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It's critical and destructive, a ground-clearing
I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.
Irony is chock-full of fiber.
The literal mind can never understand the ironic mind.
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
Irony can be tiresome when what you really need is a hug.
Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.
Irony tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit 'I don't really mean what I'm saying.
Irony is finally you found the perfect one, but there's so many obstacles to make the perfect one yours.
Catastrophe and exuberance are often partners in the dance of irony.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Irony takes nothing away from pathos.
Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.
Irony is only skin deep.
Irony is the glory of slaves.
In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!" - yet
Irony is that special privilege of wealthy nations;
Irony - The modern mode: either the devil's mark or the snorkel of sanity.
You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.
Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.
Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.
There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
The only ironic thing about that song is that it's called 'Ironic' and it is written by a woman who doesn't know what irony is. That's quite ironic when you think about it.
(on Alanis Morissette's 'Ironic')
I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as
sadness.
IRONY: THE OPPOSITE OF WRINKLY. - T-SHIRT
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.
I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
And what's the irony?
...
In the end... we call the enemy friends... the fake people again friends... should I continue here with the words?
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.
Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.
I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.
Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length.
In rereading, the irony is all dramatic.
Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.
The definition of irony - A Pope who refuses to give law enforcement the names of hundreds (or maybe thousands) of predatory homosexual pedophile priests around the world, then claiming that gay marriage will be the world's undoing. (Speaking of Benedict the XVI.)
The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.
The irony is lost on you.
I'm thinking about the beautiful boy on the treadmill wearing the I STILL HAVE A DREAM T-shirt and realize that it might not have been ironic.
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.
Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.
Your inability to forgive has always been your most ironic character trait.
Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.
Irony sort of reaches up and slaps you in the face sometimes, doesn't it?
Irony was such a bitch.
It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.
I am beholden to my own peculiar irony: to survive I self-destruct.
Irony, when delivered cold and shaved very, very fine, could sound like amusement.
(What I find ironic is that if people would spend more time giving back in a meaningful way and sharing the love they already have with others, they would realize how successful they already are.)
Some days I am all about the ironic gesture
I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: "I don't want to read anything else that you write." "Why?" She thought about it. "Because it hurts me," and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.
Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.
nihilistic - but
Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but the stupid or malignant irony of a crude age of technological progress and cultural regression.
That I chose Independence Day as the moment to strike was of course a piece of deliberate irony.
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
It's ironic. Letting yourself experience what you most don't want to experience is the only way to truly be human. ***
Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.
Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .
But I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.
I find it ironic that someone so ambivalent about living fights so hard to survive.
The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.
Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.
If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe.
Do I know what rhetorical means?Rhetorical-- Homer
He said maybe irony is the lens through which we see the picture in reverse
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
Irony deepens a person, helps them mature. It is the entrance to salvation on a higher plane, to a place where you can find a more universal kind of hope.
Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Is that supposed to be ironic or predictive or something?
I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's "Irony".
Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.
If we hear a joke so awful that we laugh at how bad it is, we are taking part in the irony; in other words, the joke did not contain irony; irony was provided by our response. Why is it ironic? Because the intent of the joke was to get laughter, and it did - but for the wrong reason.
Irony. What a fucking bitch.
I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
Dramatic irony is a cruel occurrence, one that is almost always upsetting and I'm sorry to have it appear in this story, but Violet, Klaus, and Sunny have such unfortunate lives that it was only a matter of time before dramatic irony would rear its ugly head.
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.
I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N
That was it exactly - irony was defeatist, timid, the telltale of a generation too afraid to say what it meant, and so in danger of forgetting it had anything to say.
The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.
There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.
Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.
It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.