Top 42 Life Satire Quotes
#1. Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#2. I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.
Jonathan Kieran
#3. As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to understand it.
George Herman
#4. We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.
Adolph Green
#5. Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on
that is, badly.
George Orwell
#6. When life expectancy hit 95 years of age, married people around the world shouted, "Enough!" And just like that, the institution of marriage was reinvented.
Katherine Valdez
#7. What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide.
"That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
Voltaire
#8. If Time have any wrinkle graven there; If any, be a satire to decay, And make time's spoils despised every where. Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life, So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.
William Shakespeare
#9. He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
P.G. Wodehouse
#10. By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
Frank Moore Colby
#13. When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.
Charles Churchill
#14. Real life ... Witches: Wiccan practitioners. Werewolves: rare strain of rabies. Zombies: Prions/Plague. Vampires: Hemophilia/Porphyria
Solange Nicole
#15. Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.
Stephen Gaghan
#17. The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.
Marietta Rodgers
#18. I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the "activist clubs," and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust me. The problem is not being taken care of.
Blake Nelson
#19. Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#20. Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
Salman Rushdie
#21. The paths people choose in life can lead to the creation or destruction of people, places, things, and relationships. The future is uncertain, but what is certain is there will be change.
Stephen Black
#22. People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.
Margaret Cho
#23. - Why did blondes vote for Clinton?
- They didn't know how to read and thought she can make their life hilarious!
Bryanna Reid
#24. If you live your life with passion, every second will become an adventure.
Marie Guillaume
#25. My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.
Anne Belov
#26. he pays his respect
by smiling at you
when others are looking
how he calls you a bitch
right after is truly amazing
Ymatruz
#27. I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#28. More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
Jonathan Swift
#30. But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire ... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. An algorithm of infinite symmetry, life serving death by expanding its bounty, furthering its reach. Did the perpetrators appreciate their satire? Yes, it was practical, indignity as revenge, but for what?
Philip Schultz
#34. I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.
David Shrigley
#35. Beneath the skin of everything is something nobody can know.
Stephen Collins
#36. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
George Orwell
#37. The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.
Martin Amis
#38. After we deal and heal ... NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS
... Jan Marshall
Jan Marshall
#39. When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
Anton Chekhov
#40. Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
Jennifer Armintrout
#42. Really, I protest
what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?
Jude Morgan
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