Justin Vernon Quotes

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

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

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

I'm Kevin Nealon, and that's news to me.

I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

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

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

Satire is focused bitterness.

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.