235 quotes found
“Life is biting into a cupcake and finding an eyeball at its center.”
“We will all be destroyed whether we like it or not. I say let's like it.”
“The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived.”
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
“In order to do the unthinkable, do not think about it.”
“How bold we are. We shy from a flame that licks the tip of our finger for a fraction of a second, and from which we are allowed the luxury of escape. But most of humankind flaunt their disobedience...”
“But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.”
“You can put anything into words, except your own life”
“I myself," said Gibbon, "am slightly underdone in the personal worthlessness line. It was Papa's fault. He used no irony. The communications mix offered by the parent to the child is as you know tw...”
“There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being...”
“She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat, in the hope of rearing a mountain to reach the moon. Such persons are raised up in every age; they...”
“Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had failed to come away with the most important detail of all. She cou...”
“Everybody granted that if "Tom" were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him--it would be no loss to anybody; but to shut up a valuable slave for life--that was quite another ...”
“There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under t...”
“Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us ...”
“...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.”
“This revolution is for display purposes only.”
“Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!”
“He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now.”
