Quotes About Ironies Of Life

#1. A good sense of humor, then, a taste for the ironies of life, and an appreciation of the absurd.

Paul Auster

#2. One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

#3. I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Charlie Chaplin

#4. The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#5. Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

Michael Chertoff

#6. I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best friends is pretty consistently reviled by his girlfriends' parents!

Connor Paolo

#7. Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Serj Tankian

#8. Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.

Rick Yancey

#9. You flip through it and say, 'I'd like to have that product and I'd like to have a person like that. It is You placing your order with the Universe. It's really that easy.

Joe Vitale

#10. One of life's greatest ironies is that we try so much to avoid the challenges and pitfalls, only to realize these are the very things which forge our character.

Tim Young

#11. At her funeral, Diana's brother observed, 'Of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this--- a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of our modern age.

Kris Waldherr

#12. Whether we choose the path of faith or not, we all must agree that all of life's ironies cannot be by accident.

Jack Deveny

#13. How could human civilization decline so far, yet seem so normal in many respects? And is it scientifically possible that a blight could wipe out all edible

Kip S. Thorne

#14. It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest.

Brutus Hamilton

#15. Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

W. Somerset Maugham

#16. Life, the dramatist of speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

Glen Duncan

#17. Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.

Cardale Jones

#18. I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies.

Daniel Handler

#19. It is one of life's great ironies that most people's only connection to success is their attachment to the pain of not having achieved it.

Stephen Smoke

#20. To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. It is one of the great ironies of my life that only when it became virtually impossible for me to keep my body from moving would I find the peace, security, and spiritual strength to stand in one place. I couldn't be still until I could - literally - no longer keep still.

Michael J. Fox

#22. Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.

R.D. Ronald

#23. When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.

Zachary Cole Smith

#24. The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it's an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn't notice you noticed at all.

Lynda Barry

#25. Even the things that showed him his path seemed to point at what a fool he was. Another of life's ironies? Or just fate's way of mocking him?

Ruth Frances Long

#26. After applying foundation and a little blush, dust your face with translucent powder, then mist skin with a rosewater spray and lay a Kleenex over for a second. It makes your face seem flawless in a way that looks as if you aren't wearing any makeup.

Liv Tyler

#27. One of life's ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.

Dan Pearce

#28. One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function.

Paul Beatty

#29. Her mother rolled an avocado back and forth on the spotless tabletop. The floor and the tabletop and the walls were all the same clean color, and everything was equally clean and unused. The avocado was, of course, fake, as all avocados were.

Joseph Fink

#30. It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.

Sylvia Fraser