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Quotes About Irritation

People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
A piece like a segment has been cut out of the back of his head. The sun looks in and the whole world with it. It makes him nervous, it distracts him from his work, and moreover it irritates him that he should be the very one excluded from the spectacle.
~ Franz Kafka
Jedna wielka pomy?ka, poniewa? pobo?ni uwa?aj?, ?e moje zachowanie si? jest naturalne, pozostali za? my?l?, ?e to pobo?no??. - Moja irytacja obala pa?skie twierdzenie. - Pa?ska irytacja – je?li nawet przyjmiemy, ?e jest to rzeczywista irytacja – dowodzi jedynie, ?e nie nale?y pan ani do ludzi pobo?nych, ani do pozosta?ej reszty.
~ Franz Kafka
I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!
~ Martin Freeman
What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage.
~ Miriam Margolyes
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
~ Kate Beckinsale
Well this suck hairy goat balls
~ Rosa Lee
And although the mourners well hid their irritation, it was inevitable that there were some who were impatient. If you are dead, stay dead, someone muttered.
~ Louise Erdrich
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writers must have a place where she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with. Louise Erdrich
~ Louise Erdrich
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Damn that woman!
~ Lynn Kurland
Bring the luggage in, Thomas," Lucian ordered with a frown as he approached the front. "What about the girl?" Thomas asked with irritation. "That's what I meant." Lucian stepped through the open front doors of the house.
~ Lynsay Sands
something that I could call a lust for annoyance. The voluptuousness of annoyance
~ Machado de Assis
Manifestations of temper and touchiness and irritation, feelings of bitterness and estrangement, have their root in nothing but pride.
~ Andrew Murray
screaming caterpillar that just screams and screams and when you ask it to stop it just keeps screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and scream—
~ Andy Griffiths
In theory Vera liked strong women; in practice they often irritated her.
~ Ann Cleeves
While he was at Lichfield, in the college vacation of the year 1729, he felt himself overwhelmed with an horrible hypochondria, with perpetual irritation, fretfulness, and impatience; and with a dejection, gloom, and despair, which made existence misery. From this dismal malady he never afterwards was perfectly relieved; and all his labours, and all his enjoyments, were but temporary interruptions of its baleful influence.
~ Samuel Johnson
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves —" "I'm going to
~ Sarah Mlynowski
I'm still irritated at the end of the day when my brother, Jonah, and I are standing outside school, waiting for our dad to pick us up. It doesn't help when Brandon says, "Bye, Crabby Abby," as he strolls past me. He walks home from school by himself. Either his parents trust him to make his way home alone or they think he's awful, too, and are hoping he gets kidnapped.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
I hate this stinking little butt crack of a town!
~ Scott Heim
nada me faz perder tanto as estribeiras como ver alguém me espicaçando com lugares-comuns dos mais insignificantes quando estou falando do fundo de meu coração.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The tension of constructing an explanation, from A to B to C to D, apparently so simple a task, irritates many people with ADD. While they can hold the information in mind, they do not have the patience to sequentially put it out. That is too tedious. They would like to dump the information in a heap on the floor all at once and have it be comprehended instantly. Otherwise, as Douglas says, it's just not worth the effort. It's too boring.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
The tension of constructing an explanation, from A to B to C to D, apparently so simple a task, irritates many people with ADD. While they can hold the information in mind, they do not have the patience to sequentially put it out. That is too tedious. They would like to dump the information in a heap on the floor all at once and have it be comprehended instantly. Otherwise
~ Edward M. Hallowell