Robert Smith Surtees Quotes

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

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

It's a funny old world.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

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

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

My life's a wreck, and I love it.

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

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

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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

Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.

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

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

Ironic things are interesting.

In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film, I still want it to have the more cynical view of things, showing the irony and absurdity of things that we consider normal.

Life is funny and weird.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

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.