81 Quotes About Irony-of-life

  • Author Geoff Dyer
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    People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories...

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  • Author V S Naipaul
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    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

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  • Author Theodor Fontane
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    Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, die er darin findet, bezahlen zu können.

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  • Author Titon Rahmawan
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    The fact is, we don't live in the truth. Everything we do is falsehood and pretense. We are forced to do whatever it takes to exist.

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  • Author Rohit Dharupta
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    God is funny, he always maintains the scarcity in life by giving something that you don’t have but then taking away something else that you had.

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