Top Irritation Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Irritation quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Pema Chodron
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.
- Pema Chodron
Collection: Irritation
Image of Patricia Wentworth
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.
- Patricia Wentworth
Collection: Irritation
Image of Randy Newman
My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.
- Randy Newman
Collection: Irritation
Image of John Schuerholz
Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things
- John Schuerholz
Collection: Irritation
Image of Lewis Wolpert
When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.' It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck.
- Lewis Wolpert
Collection: Irritation
Image of Judith Martin
Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Irritation
Image of Agnes Repplier
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
- Agnes Repplier
Collection: Irritation
Image of Spencer W. Kimball
The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
- Spencer W. Kimball
Collection: Irritation
Image of Flannery O'Connor
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.
- Flannery O'Connor
Collection: Irritation
Image of Eckhart Tolle
With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.
- Eckhart Tolle
Collection: Irritation
Image of Nora Roberts
People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.
- Nora Roberts
Collection: Irritation
Image of Bertrand Russell
The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.
- Bertrand Russell
Collection: Irritation
Image of Christopher Moore
Life is an irritation.
- Christopher Moore
Collection: Irritation
Image of Mira Grant
April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.
- Mira Grant
Collection: Irritation
Image of Karen Chance
Not really hungry." "She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly. "I said —" "If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation." "I eat plenty." "The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however." "I’ll have a sandwich," I told Nick. "No meat.
- Karen Chance
Collection: Irritation
Image of Maggie Stiefvater
He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.
- Maggie Stiefvater
Collection: Irritation
Image of Vera Nazarian
True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.
- Vera Nazarian
Collection: Irritation
Image of Leo Burnett
Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.
- Leo Burnett
Collection: Irritation
Image of Charlie Munger
Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.
- Charlie Munger
Collection: Irritation
Image of Miguel de Cervantes
All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Collection: Irritation
Image of Becca Fitzpatrick
Hmm?' I looked away, flustered automatically using irritation to cover my discomfort up. 'What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could you ever use more that five words? All this grunting and minced words make you come across-- primal.' His smile tipped higher. 'Primal.' 'You're impossible.' 'Me Jev, you Nora.' -Nora & Patch (PG 226)
- Becca Fitzpatrick
Collection: Irritation
Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Collection: Irritation
Image of Elizabeth Gaskell
He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Collection: Irritation
Image of Nhat Hanh
Every feeling is a field of energy. A pleasant feeling is an energy which can nourish. Irritation is a feeling which can destroy. Under the light of awareness, the energy of irritation can be transformed into and energy which nourishes.
- Nhat Hanh
Collection: Irritation
Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Collection: Irritation
Image of Don Marquis
Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
- Don Marquis
Collection: Irritation