#irony

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#failure #irony #optimism #failure

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#irony #language #speech #truth #writing

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success. ↗

— Robert Orben

#irony #identity

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#laughter

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

#irony #war #cowardice

I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #irony

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#irony #lovers #minimalism #homosexuality

So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share a Galaxy with them, not if they're just gonna keep at it, not if they're not gonna learn to relax a little. I mean it's just gonna be continual nervous time, isn't it, right? Pow, pow, pow, when are they next coming at us? Peaceful coexistence is just right out, right? Get me some water somebody, thank you." He sat back and sipped reflectively. OK," he said, "hear me, hear me. It's, like, these guys, you know, are entitled to their own view of the Universe. And according to their view, which the Universe forced on them, right, they did right. Sounds crazy, but I think you'll agree. They believe in ..." He consulted a piece of paper which he found in the back pocket of his Judicial jeans. They believe in `peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life, and the obliteration of all other life forms'. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#irony #sci-fi #family

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame. ↗

— Ted Allen

#fine #food #great #irony #know

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#irony #literary #qualities #two