Erica Jong Quotes

It's a funny old world.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Be obscure clearly.

I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.