Inspirational Irony Quotes & Sayings

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. — Eben Alexander

Even English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success. — Kshitij Shringi

People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned. — David Mitchell

the result is what people live with, not the cause. — Garth Stein

And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand — David Coleman

Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe. — Keith Caserta

It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if they did not. — Barbara Kingsolver

The Emperor, you see, protects ... He protects mankind, through the Legions, through the Martial corps, through the war machines of the Mechanicum. He understands the dangers. The inconsistencies. He uses you, and all the instruments like you, to protect us from harm. To protect our physical bodies from murder and damage, to protect our minds from madness, to protect our souls ... There are insane dangers in the cosmos, dangers that mankind is fundamentally unable to comprehend, let alone survive. So he protects us. There are truths out there that would drive us mad by one fleeting glimpse of them. So he chooses not to share them with us. That's why he made you ... Remember, Garviel. The Emperor is our truth and out light. If we trust in him, he will protect. — Dan Abnett

I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL ...
BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK .
. IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS — ASHISH RANJAN

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along. — Allan Lokos

She had a flower tattoo on her wrist; "What does that mean?" he asked her. "Absolutely nothing," she said, "it's just a flower. — C. JoyBell C.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. - Marcus Tullius Cicero — Tom Standage

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful. — Mindy Kaling

For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.
As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity by lightened by grace.
Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.
As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.
As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.
As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.
May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of god. — John O'Donohue

IT is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation. — Calvin Coolidge

Women in love are pathetic
and I cannot be bothered, for now,
I am back to metaphysics
and my armpits gather hair. — Mie Hansson

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror. — Flann O'Brien

There are people who are dancing through Life and others who are crying through Life. The irony is that Life is the same - what we do is purely our Choice. -RVM — R.v.m.

Nobody steals books but your friends. — Roger Zelazny

And after night comes day, or more night, depending on the particular time-frame you choose to apply to your perspective. — Adam Roberts

There are words in my life that I wish I'd never said. I wish I'd never told my wife that I loved her, because then I had to line up all my actions with those words. I had to always act like that was true. And those three words, I love you, should never be used if you don't mean them. My lying has meant I will never get to use them on anyone else. I went against my own truth, my own heart, and there is really no coming back from that. — Helen Humphreys

Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money. — Christopher Lee

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting. — Francis Bacon

Either I wake up in the Grey Zone,' he whispered, 'and I've forgotten how to breathe, and my feet are so far away I'm not sure I can afford the air fare; — Edward St. Aubyn

If I had but the time and you had but the brain — Lewis Carroll

But the irony is that unless God's in the center of it, you can get singed pretty badly. — Julie Lessman

But mostly, I remembered what I've always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it's your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid?
Gotta go with stupid.
It's not the easy way out. Self-pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism, that's tough. — Katherine Applegate

There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there's a relationship here — Condoleezza Rice

Never go questing without a bit of rope, at least that's how the stories have it. — Mark Lawrence

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

The irony is that we are busy doing many things that don't matter and we have no time for things that do. Shouldn't we reverse it?-RVM — R.v.m.

The taxi driver felt that it was a good observation, and said he was planning to build for the future, too: he had some money on the horses, and if he won, he would buy his own taxicab, and really do well.
I felt very sorry. I told him that betting on the horses was a bad idea, but he insisted it was the only way he could do it. He had such good intentions, but his method was going to be luck.
I wasn't going to go on philosophizing, so he took me to a place where there was a steel band playing some great calypso music, and I had an enjoyable afternoon. — Richard Feynman

Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get on with the job'] - as they used to tell us in the army. That's the best and finest thing of all. — Jaroslav Hasek