#ironic

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#authority #avoidance #figure #habit #home

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends. ↗

— Peter Hook

#apprehension #being #case #each #end

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs. ↗

— Rona Barrett

#free #grabs #ironic #jungle #life

Shepley stomped into the apartment and slammed the door behind him. “She’s fucking impossible!” I kissed Travis on the cheek. “That’s my cue.” “Good luck,” Travis said. I slid in beside America, and she huffed. “He’s fucking impossible! ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#funny-couples #humorus-fights #ironic #laugh-out-loud #love

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. ↗

— William Faulkner

#harsh #ironic #funny

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#becomes #ironically #longer #look #more

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #class

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#another #asked #began #british #chairman

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. ↗

— River Phoenix

#except #few #few people #find #hysterical

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#countries #give #hope #instability #intellectuals