Daniel Handler Quotes

Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life.

It's a funny old world.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

I just love well-organized, very serious nonsense.

Ironic things are interesting.

In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film, I still want it to have the more cynical view of things, showing the irony and absurdity of things that we consider normal.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.

So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.