Quotes About Irony Of Love

#1. The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.

Harold H. Bloomfield

#2. We often assume that the question, "How can I be happy?" can be successfully answered without reference to the love of God and our neighbors. And the irony is that if our biggest question is our own happiness, we can never know the God in whom we find our ultimate joy and rest.

Michael S. Horton

#3. She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation.

Henry James

#4. I would join Combat or die trying... A fine choice of words. What had been meant as a melodramatic proclamation was now to be my intended irony.

Rachel E. Carter

#5. 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

#6. Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an inarticulate zombie confused by the irony of Randy Newman's I Love L.A.

Bret Easton Ellis

#7. That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and
in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love
you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

Ursula Hegi

#8. We will respond, even in the face of irony and slander, with the sweetness of love. We can afford to take this attitude because good anvils do not fear the blows of many hammers.

Richard Wurmbrand

#9. I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

Don Hertzfeldt

#10. Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.

Andre Breton

#12. You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes."
Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you."
"No.

Anna Godbersen

#13. Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.

Ben Lerner

#14. Luke is the sort of boy Taylor Swift could at least three songs out of.

Beth Garrod

#15. Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity.

Matt Ridley

#16. I have three sons, as different from each other as any three humans could be but connected by their shared love of Guitar Hero. I'm lucky to be married to a man I can call my soulmate without any irony whatsoever.

Christina Baker Kline

#17. Love: the sickest of Irony's sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

Christopher Moore

#18. Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

Kathleen Norris

#19. I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.

John Pilger

#20. I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

Zack Snyder

#21. I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.

Jim Harrison

#22. The irony of life is that the child begins to become an adult when he starts to live alone and he loses the security provided by those who love him and are always close to him.

Mark Curl

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

Cassandra Clare

#24. Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression.

Christopher Hitchens

#25. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' ...

Christopher Hitchens

#26. Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you.

Shivam Singh

#27. Don't you love fall?" Stacey asked. "All the little festivals, the changing leaves, kids in Halloween costumes, the dead spewing up out of their graves to haunt the living ...

J.L. Bryan

#28. It's the irony of woman's life in that she tends to turn her assets to her own detriment in that while her psyche seeks to see her man strong; her instinct tries to weaken him.

BS Murthy

#29. In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.

Brandi L. Bates

#30. I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Michael J. Fox

#31. Carefully I opened my eyes and looked at him again. All his natural gifts were there in a blaze of light: the delicate but strong limbs, large sober brown eyes, and his mouth that for all the irony and sarcasm that could come out of it was childlike and ready to be kissed.

Anne Rice

#32. I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#33. That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.

Dave Matthes

#34. The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around like rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.

Anne Morris

#35. Thats the irony of Josh and me, and it shames me every time I think about it. He has no family. No one to love him. I'm surrounded by love and I dont want any of it. I piss all over what he woud thank God for. And if I needed more proof that I have no soul, then there it is.

Katja Millay

#36. The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#37. I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.

Ben Foster

#38. The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

John Ortberg

#39. I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

Roger Daltrey

#40. The irony of the human heart is that it's tormented both by the presence and absence of it's own soul's counterpart.

Crystal Woods

#41. How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!

Leo Tolstoy

#42. Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony

Jostein Gaarder