#iron

It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It’s like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get fooled into thinking his girlfriend might wake up and stop him. Every single time you see it you want to shout, 'You stupid ass, just wait a minute,' and she’ll open her eyes! 'Oi, you, you twat, open your eyes, wake up! Don’t die this time!' But they always do. ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#despair #irony #romeo-and-juliet #irony

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#virtues #irony

When I'm not around you that is when I feel breathless. I liken it to being a fish, and you are my water. When I'm not around you, I feel as though I cannot breathe. And you have to understand the irony in that because I've never in my entire existence ever needed to. ↗

— S.L. Naeole

#irony

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#stating-the-obvious #irony

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#literature #irony

…Dunia ini penuh dengan keajaiban karena hal-hal yang tidak masuk akal masih terus berlangsung. Seorang fotografer ingin membagi duka dunia di balik hal-hal yang kasat mata….para fotografer membagi pandangan, tetapi yang memandang fotonya ternyata buta meskipun mempunyai mata. Keajaiban dunia adalah suatu ironi, di depan kemanusiaan yang terluka, manusia tertawa-tawa. ↗

— Seno Gumira Ajidarma

#buta #duka #dunia #foto #fotografer

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other ↗

— John Brunner

#irony #irony

Even things that are true can be proved. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#truth #irony

To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#dreams

Did I just see you litter?' 'I'm driving a hybrid. It cancels out. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#environmentalism