#irony

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#death #focus #hanging #irony #death

Hell is cold. Do you remember when you told me that? We were in the cellars of the Dark House. Anyone else would have been panicking, but you were as calm as a governess, telling me Hell was covered in ice. If it is the fire of Heaven that takes you from me, what a cruel irony that would be. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #page- #irony

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums. ↗

— Rick Allen

#before #course #drums #i #interest

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#book #childhood #comfort #death #drums

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#else #happen #irony #somebody #stories

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#brain #eighty #everything #face #face value

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#being #biggest #creative #creative ways #enjoy