{"quotes":[{"text":"Had I only known my lettersWould be of such importanceI’d empty myself on paperEvery single morning’And it was for such reason,as she read his little stanza,that she decided to stamponefinalletter:‘Every single morningI’d empty myself on paperYou were my greater importanceThat’s why I wrote you letters.","author":"Mie Hansson","tags":["bittersweet","danish-poetry","irony-of-life","letters","love","mie-hansson","poetry","separation","where-pain-thrives"],"id":19190,"author_id":"Mie+Hansson"},{"text":"I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death. (Page 94).","author":"Neena Verma","tags":["death","death","irony-of-life","life","life-and-death"],"id":54701,"author_id":"Neena+Verma"},{"text":"Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.","author":"Keith Caserta","tags":["humor","inspirational","irony-of-life","worry","worrying"],"id":60231,"author_id":"Keith+Caserta"},{"text":"Isn't it ironic that when you accept sadness is an inevitability of the human condition you feel happier?","author":"RyLee Harrison","tags":["hope","human","human-condition","inevitabilities","inevitability","irony","irony-of-life","sadness"],"id":67639,"author_id":"RyLee+Harrison"},{"text":"Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.","author":"Neel Mukherjee","tags":["determinism","irony-of-life","philosophy-of-life"],"id":88251,"author_id":"Neel+Mukherjee"},{"text":"... A man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["black-humor","dark-humor","ego","egotism","egotist","funny","gadfly","humorous","irony","irony-of-life","men","pride","pride-trap","sarcasm","socrates"],"id":98033,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.","author":"Núria Añó","tags":["age","ageing","aging","aging-gracefully","economy","getting-older","growing-old","humor","inevitability","irony-of-life","job","jobs","life","living","mathematics","middle-age","nuria-ano","old-age","old-aged","old-people","retired","retiring","work","worker","workers","working-class","works"],"id":101575,"author_id":"N%C3%BAria+A%C3%B1%C3%B3"},{"text":"My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option.","author":"Rachel Vincent","tags":["humour","irony-of-life"],"id":106822,"author_id":"Rachel+Vincent"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["absurdist-fiction","ashim-shanker","bitterness","black-humor","boredom","cosmic-irony","disappointment","dispassion","ennui","gallows-humor","hatred","indifference","infinitude","irony-of-life","love","love-and-hate","naught","nihilism","only-the-deplorable","passage-of-time","prolonging-life","suffering"],"id":117686,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"},{"text":"Reword and its an Innovation. Irony.","author":"Talees Rizvi","tags":["innovation","irony-of-life","reword"],"id":136114,"author_id":"Talees+Rizvi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}