And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over
V.S. NaipaulTags: irony-of-life
Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they say."
"What?" Vimes' sudden rage was like a thunderclap. "Who says that? When has that ever been true? It's never been true! It's the kind of thing people without power say to make it all seem less bloody awful, but it's just words, it never makes any difference -
Tags: quotes irony-of-life
The great incestuous wish is to flow on, one with time, to merge the great image of the beyond with the here and now. A fatuous, suicidal wish that is constipated by words and paralyzed by thought.
Henry MillerTags: irony-of-life
You know, Bob, school is school, one of those life experiences we kids all have to get through in order to become you. Then we wonder what all the fuss was about, especially while we're cleaning up your little messes: toxic waste, war, bank bailouts. Honestly, if we ran up debt the way you guys do? You'd ground us, take away our cells, and make us clean toilets with a toothbrush until we'd pay back every penny.
Ilsa J. BickTags: irony-of-life
We always feel the brunt of the blow dealt to us, but hardly ever do we feel the impact we have on others. Why is that?
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: irony effect impact richelle irony-of-life blow richelle-goodrich brunt curiosities
Wouldn't you know it. My ship finally comes in and I'm at lunch.
Kait CarsonTags: humorous-quotations irony-of-life
I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.
Jonathan KieranTags: humor perspective ambition paradoxes satire irony-of-life existential-facts
Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful.
Linda S. GodfreyTags: humor irony-of-life humorous-philosophy
His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he ceased to feel. There was nothing further in which to believe that made the prospect of feeling worthwhile. Daily he woke up and cast downtrodden eyes upon the sea and he would say to himself with a hint of regret at his hitherto lack of indifference, 'All a dim illusion, was it? Surely it was foolish of me to think any of this had meaning.' He would then spend hours staring at the sky, wondering how best to pass the time if everything—even the sky itself— were for naught. He arrived at the conclusion that there was no best way to pass the time. The only way to deal with the illusion of time was to endure it, knowing full well, all the while, that one was truly enduring nothing at all. Unfortunately for him, this nihilistic resolution to dispassion didn’t suit him very well and he soon became extremely bored. Faced now with the choice between further boredom and further suffering, he impatiently chose the latter, sailing another few weeks along the coast , and then inland, before finally dropping anchor off the shores of the fishing village of Yami.
Ashim ShankerTags: love indifference suffering hatred nihilism disappointment boredom bitterness gallows-humor passage-of-time ennui black-humor irony-of-life absurdist-fiction love-and-hate cosmic-irony naught ashim-shanker infinitude dispassion only-the-deplorable prolonging-life
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