Cruel Irony Quotes

#1. Hell is cold. Do you remember when you told me that? We were in the cellars of the Dark House. Anyone else would have been panicking, but you were as calm as a governess, telling me Hell was covered in ice. If it is the fire of Heaven that takes you from me, what a cruel irony that would be.

Cassandra Clare

#2. These were the moments I wished I were dead, when I was too weak to do anything about it. It was nature's cruel irony, stringing me along.

Pepper Winters

#3. If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

Paul Valery

#4. She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

E. M. Forster

#5. The cruel irony of housework:
people only notice when you don't do it.

Danielle Raine

#6. What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#7. Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Albert Camus

#8. That was the last cruel irony of Tobias's life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

Cassandra Clare

#9. The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#10. It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

Gillian Flynn

#11. Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

Rob Lowe

#12. It shouldn't be a Republican or Democratic issue whether we take care of the environment. That should be a human issue.

Michael Franti

#13. Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.

Daniel S. Greenberg

#14. When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Namie Amuro

#15. 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.

Lemony Snicket

#16. Through it all, we attempt to bring balance to the present moment,
understanding that in patience lies wisdom,
knowing that what will come next will be determined in large measure by how we are now.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#17. In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

Peter Zumthor

#18. Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband's dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Like, I was in his dream as an onlooker. It was so weird that I immediately wrote it down in the middle of the night. In the morning, it still sounded cool.

Lisa McMann