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Quotes About Irritation

And I'll stop with the lecture now. I don't like people much—they irritate and annoy me. But I'm fascinated by them anyway.
~ Michelle Sagara West
Porque es así y vale para todos: nunca sabremos por qué irritamos a la gente, qué es lo que nos hace simpáticos, qué es lo que noshace ridículos; nuestra propia imagen es para nosotros nuestro mayor misterio
~ Milan Kundera
A ironia irrita. Não porque escarnece ou ataca, mas porque nos priva das certezas, desvendando o mundo como ambiguidade.
~ Milan Kundera
One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come.
~ Dalai Lama
If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.
~ Terry Pratchett
It's yet another thing that irritates me this morning, on top of the fact that I'm hungry. I didn't sleep well, and now the mosquitos have found me. Mosquitos always find me. Whenever I step outside , it's as if they can hear their dinner bell ring, and already I am slapping at my neck and face.
~ Tess Gerritsen
For example, the sound of the telephone can make us irritated and anxious. That is the sound of the telephone which comes as a result of past actions and afflictions. If, however, we practice and acknowledge the sound of the telephone as a bell of mindfulness, then when the telephone rings we shall know how to bring our mind back to our breathing, smile, and make our mind and body peaceful.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
~ John Lydon
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
~ Kin Hubbard
Dory mentally added another grand to the tally sheet for this job as a heat tax. And then another for the mosquitoes. And what the hell, a third for the freaking smell
~ 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
Oh, he rarely gets angry. But he is perpetually irritated.
~ Karen Hawkins
What the feck?" Dani snapped when I answered. "You sleep like the fecking dead up there! I been calling you for five fecking minutes!
~ Karen Marie Moning
People who tell you never to let little things bother you have never tried sleeping in a room with a mosquito.
~ Katherine Chandler
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
~ Gautama Buddha
The stairs ended. I wished I knew the jackass who'd made the staircase so short. I'd throw him down the damn steps so he could count them with his head.
~ Ilona Andrews
Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.
~ Chelsea Handler
Her whole body was sick of him, sore and bored and sick.
~ Storm Constantine
I didn't have a cell phone, and as a result I hadn't thought much about what one would do with them, other than irritate people around me.
~ Sujata Massey
In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.
~ Robert Smith
Naturally there's a fucking conchigliette in my shoe!
~ Miriam Toews
Then she'd straightened up and announced in irritation, "I've fallen out of time," before vanishing in a great cloud of smoke.
~ Naomi Novik
It annoyed me more and not less because I didn't have a good reason for being annoyed. I couldn't even come up with anything to say about it.
~ Naomi Novik