Quotes tagged as "irony-of-life" Showing 1-30 of 94
"...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, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
"But a desperate heart will seduce the mind." ― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
"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, My Soul to Take
"His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he ceased to feel. There was nothing further in which to believe that made the prospect of feeling worthwhile. Daily he woke up and cast downtrodden eyes upon the sea and he would say to himself with a hint of regret at his hitherto lack of indifference, 'All a dim illusion, was it? Surely it was foolish of me to think any of this had meaning.' He would then spend hours staring at the sky, wondering how best to pass the time if everything—even the sky itself— were for naught. He arrived at the conclusion that there was no best way to pass the time. The only way to deal with the illusion of time was to endure it, knowing full well, all the while, that one was truly enduring nothing at all. Unfortunately for him, this nihilistic resolution to dispassion didn't suit him very well and he soon became extremely bored. Faced now with the choice between further boredom and further suffering, he impatiently chose the latter, sailing another few weeks along the coast , and then inland, before finally dropping anchor off the shores of the fishing village of Yami." ― Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable
"Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe." ― Keith Caserta, Soul Searching
"And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over" ― V S Naipaul
"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 -" ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
"Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, die er darin findet, bezahlen zu können." ― Theodor Fontane
"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 star of the modern age. Every newspaper in America never fails to report on my comeback tours, and I get excellent reviews." ― Warren Ellis, Crooked Little Vein
"The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts." ― Núria Añó
"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." ― Quentin Crisp
"To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference." ― Gary Inbinder
"The fact is, we don't live in the truth. Everything we do is falsehood and pretense. We are forced to do whatever it takes to exist." ― Titon Rahmawan
"I'm going to die and my son farts in my face... what a waste!" ― Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums
"That's the sad irony of life. Once we learn our lessons… it's over." ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Two Sisters
"God is the master of timing. He bundles our wishes in such a manner that the moment a long-standing desire gets fulfilled, fresh desire manages to eclipse the joy." ― Rohit Dharupta, Order of the World
"Reality stands on its head when a man climbs higher by reaching lower." ― Sandeep Jayaram, A Ladder Of Panties
"Irony is when people buy you gifts yet the cost is your happiness." ― Mitta Xinindlu
"What's really valuable gets the least attention.
Misplaced priorities, the biggest irony of mankind." ― Live Life Essence
"Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently." ― Dick Cavett
"Hindsight - never around when you need it!" ― Chris Crutchley
"Funny how often life seems to work in reverse. We were children masquerading as adults and now we are adults acting like children." ― Alice Feeney, His & Hers
"Christina died of a stroke in the fall of 1971, at the age of sixty-one. June watched the nurses take her mother's body away. Standing there in the hospital, June felt like she'd been caught in an undertow. How had she ended up here? One woman all alone, with four kids, and a restaurant she had never wanted. The day after the funeral, June took the kids to school. She dropped Kit off at the elementary building and then drove Nina, Jay, and Hud to junior high. When they pulled into the drop-off circle, Jay and Hud took off. But Nina turned back, put her hand on the door handle, and looked at her mother. 'Are you sure you're OK?' Nina asked. 'I could stay home. Help you at the restaurant.' 'No, honey,' June said, taking her daughter's hand. 'If you feel up for going to school, then that's where you should be.' 'OK,' Nina said. 'But if you need me, come get me.' 'How about we think of it the other way around?' June said, smiling. 'If you need me, have the office call me.' Nina smiled. 'OK' June felt herself about to cry and so she put her sunglasses over her eyes and pulled out of the parking lot. She drove, with the window down, to Pacific Fish. She pulled in and put on the parking brake. She took a deep breath. She got out of the car and stood there, staring up at the restaurant with a sense of all that she had inherited. It was hers now, whatever that meant. She lit a cigarette." ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising
"I silently stare. They silently stare. I see squirms and scorns in a watercolour blanket of grey, black, and mud. They see fun-filled tourists living in these houses. I don't know if they see pain, but I do feel the meanings of our sights are inherently opposing: my sight is pitiful, and their sight is delightful. I feel these eyes do not have memory, but I have memory in all its horrific layers. Can I ever give the bark a piece of my mind? Doesn't nature understand the bark eyes deserve a memory more than I do?
---" ― Nilanjana Haldar, Quiet Screams to the Quiet Healer
"I've never been there for you and your mother. I wish I had been. You both deserved better." Natalie hesitated. Now? she thought. You want to unburden yourself now? Oh, dude... "Mom did," Natalie agreed. "I'll always regret that I never found a way to have you in my life," he said. "Yeah, kind of hard when you have a wife and three kids at home." He winced. "I was so fucking stupid. I have so many damn regrets." He paused, then asked, "Did she... did Blythe ever speak of me?" "Let's not do this," Natalie said. "Let's not make this all about you. You could have asked Mom anytime in the past three decades. What do you suppose she would have said---that you're the guy who banged her and gaslighted her about wanting to spend the rest of your life with her?" ― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop
"Też tego próbowałem. Ignorować rząd w nadziei, że zniknie. Nie zniknął." ― Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life
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