A Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

H. P. Lovecraft

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Absent Even Greatest Horrors Irony Seldom

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H. P. Lovecraft
American - Writer
August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

H. P. Lovecraft

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

Henry Giroux

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.

Claudia Gray

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

George Santayana

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.

Carolyn Kizer

Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

Elizabeth Cox

The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.

John Mortimer

Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

Matt Dillon

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Shirley Hazzard

What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?

Bernhard Schlink

The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.

Esther Hicks

I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.

Muriel Wace

China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation.

Andre Vltchek

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.