Life's Irony Quotes

It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy should change and become political due to other things. It should just laugh at that cosmic joke that life is all the time.

Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

Life is a jest; and all things show it., I thought so once; but now I know it.

What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.

Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.

It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.

That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man.

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face

Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

What you don't want is always going to be with you What you want is never going to be with you Where you don't want to go, you have to go And the moment you think you're going to live more, you're going to die

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.

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.

It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.