Luke Hemsworth Quotes

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

I'm the depresso guy on holidays.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

Nothing burns like the cold.

The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but it was quite an accomplishment at the Hebrew Academy.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail.

Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

I cross out words so you will see them more

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.