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Quotes About Irritation

All the Kamals were fluent in irritation. They loved each other but were almost always annoyed by each other, in ways that were both generalised and existential (why is he like that?) and also highly specific (how hard is it to remember to put the top back on the yoghurt?).
~ John Lanchester
If he couldn't be alone, then he couldn't think of anyone he'd rather have irritating him.
~ John Marco
What was she to think? Oh, teasing, teasing man! It would be so much easier if he could simply tell her what he meant by all his confusing actions. And so she had another shock: Jane Bennet was irritated with Mr. Bingley.
~ Elizabeth Adams
Flush likes civilised life, and the society of little dogs with turned-up tails, such as Florence abounds with. Unhappily it abounds also with fleas, which afflict poor Flush to the verge sometimes of despair. Fancy Robert and me down on our knees combing him, with a basin of water on one side! He suffers to such a degree from fleas that I cannot bear to witness it. He tears off his pretty curls through the irritation. Do you know of a remedy?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He didn't think it at me, I could feel his irritation, and also his recognition of the fact that meatforms did a lot of stupid thing because of our meat, and the senseless chitter of our drunkard's walk evolutionary development didn't help.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The nearest arched window poured its soft light over him, allowing me to see every inch. Dressed smartly in black loafers and slacks, he wore a thigh-length, black coat. He'd brushed his golden hair back, tucked behind his ears, and his cheeks looked flushed, no doubt due to the bitter, evening air. He looks like an angel in the winter snow. The thought made me growl in irritation. "Hello, Magpie." I couldn't move. "Adrian.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
Her irritation with the world had dampened into a cushion of soft melancholy that went with her everywhere.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Helen worked in her back garden, planting her tulip and crocus bulbs. Her irritation with the world had dampened into a cushion of soft melancholy that went with her everywhere.
~ Elizabeth Strout
irritation attracts antibody-producing cells.
~ Arthur Hailey
I came a fabulous opera. I saw that all beings have a fatality for happiness: action is not life, but a way of spending your strength, an irritation. Morality is a weakness of the brain.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.
~ Avril Lavigne
Rap is just to me very annoying.
~ James Hetfield
I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done so many times. I felt I had nothing to do. I used to irritate the cameramen.
~ Ram Charan
Forgiveness presupposes that a wrong has been commmitted. Irritations do not call for forgiveness, rather they call for negotiations
~ Gary Chapman
I don't have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.
~ George Carlin
She hated television but flicked through the channels until she hated it even more....
~ George D. Shuman
I have never done you injustice. Please remember me," said Dorothea, repressing a rising sob. "Why should you say that?" said Will, with irritation. "As if I were not in danger of forgetting everything else.
~ George Eliot
He did not shrug his shoulders; and for want of that muscular outlet he thought the more irritably of beautiful lips kissing holy skulls and other emptinesses ecclesiastically enshrined.
~ George Eliot
If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.
~ Katie Couric
I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.
~ Kristen Stewart
When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.
~ James Lafferty
Benevolence requires the steadiness of an elephant—a sense of trusting ourselves and remembering the suffering of others—because it is easy to become irritated with people.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates
~ Samuel Johnson