Top 146 Irritation Quotes & Sayings

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.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once.

Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

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.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.

One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come.

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

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)

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

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.

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.

My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.

Life is an irritation.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

I believe it's important to use my influence for a good cause, helping to reach millions of consumers who suffer from eye irritation, which made working with Clear Eyes feel like a natural fit.

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things

The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back.

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.

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

I have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not embraced by the schools, but that often their creed is the only one singled out for contempt.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.

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.

I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.

Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

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.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

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.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.

Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.