Quotes About Tragic Irony

#1. When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging.

Lynda Resnick

#2. Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

Tom Stoppard

#3. A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Ellen Glasgow

#4. The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse.

Tullian Tchividjian

#5. Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#6. Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition.

Chester Barnard

#7. The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them.

Bruno Schulz

#8. It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

Rachel Held Evans

#9. Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Horace Mann

#10. 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

#11. Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen.

Pearl Zhu

#12. If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.

Jaggi Vasudev

#13. It is a tragic and potentially lethal irony that those who most despise science and the method of free inquiry should have been able to pilfer from it and annex its sophisticated products to their sick dreams.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

Jenny Slate

#15. You govern people, you do good and bad things.
If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.

Toba Beta

#16. Toothless crossed his eyes and made a gulping noise with his throat as if he was swallowing ...
"AAAAAAARGH!" screamed Hiccup.
Toothless spat Ziggerastica onto the floor.
"Only j-j-joking," he said.

Cressida Cowell

#17. Must take care of de root for to heal de tree.

Karen White

#18. For pity's sake, shut your royal gob and stop with the incessant screaming!" he demanded, pressing a finger to his lips for silence. "It's damned annoying.

L.T. Suzuki

#19. And it would be over in a flash. The state police are providing

John Grisham

#20. He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history
the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

Don DeLillo

#21. The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

Samuel Johnson

#22. Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful.

Linda S. Godfrey

#23. He said he wants variety. The irony is that I wanted variety too. But I wanted variety in a solid, stable committed relationship where I would wake up each morning asking "What are we going to do today?" not asking "Who are you going to do today?

Aimee Lane

#24. When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#25. Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

Rick Mercer