Paul Fussell Quotes About Irony

• All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

  Paul Fussell

  Wise, Travel, Joy

• Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

  Paul Fussell

  War, Mean, Ironic

  Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.23, Oxford University Press

• Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

  Paul Fussell

  Fuel, Innocence, Irony

  Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.34, Oxford University Press

• Todo el patetismo y la ironía de dejar atrás la juventud están así implícitos en cada alegre momento del viaje

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Leaving, Around The World

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