Irritation Quotes

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

“Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.”
― Whoopi Goldberg

“Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chicken salad...”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”
― Steve Maraboli

“If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs,
it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.”
― Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

“Whenever you feel that someone is angry or someone has collided with you, you always think that he is responsible. This is how ignorance concludes, interprets. Ignorance always says, ”The other is responsible.” Wisdom always says, ”If somebody is responsible, then I am responsible, and the only way not to collide is not to be.”
”I am responsible” doesn’t mean, ”I am doing something, that is why they are angry.” That is not the question. You may not be doing anything, but just your being there is enough for people to get angry. The question is not whether you are doing good or bad. The question is that you are there.”
― Osho

“So, along with clear seeing, there’s another important element, and that’s kindness. It seems that, without clarity and honesty, we don’t progress. We just stay stuck in the same vicious cycle. But honesty without kindness makes us feel grim and mean, and pretty soon we start looking like we’ve been sucking on lemons. We become so caught up in introspection that we lose any contentment or gratitude we might have had. The sense of being irritated by ourselves and our lives and other people’s idiosyncrasies becomes overwhelming. That’s why there’s so much emphasis on kindness.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“The sooner temper shows up in a relationship, the worse the implications. Most people are on their best behavior early in a relationship, so be wary of people who display irritability early on. It can indicate both brittleness and a sense of entitlement, not to mention disrespect. People who have a short fuse and expect that life should go according to their wishes don't make for good company. If you find yourself reflexively stepping in to soothe someone's anger, watch out.”
― Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

“Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“That irked the crap out of him, but maybe that's just what happens when you get old. Everything's so damned irksome.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The Water Museum

“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“We are so unhappy that we can only enjoy something which we should be annoyed to see go wrong, and that can and does constantly happen to thousands of things. Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point. It is perpetual motion.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“If whatever I write hurts you, Congrats, you have reached an awesome level of meaning and understanding else if whatever I write irritates you, All the Best, you are yet to reach a primary level of knowing and meaning”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“You are sometimes the person who someone who seems, to you, to feel like killing themselves, feels like killing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Everything that irritates you about me can lead you to an understanding, am i correct? Try to understand met.”
― Santosh Kumar (San)

“I had rooted for Godzilla and King Kong instead of for the people trying to kill them. ... Nobody likes to be awakened from slumber by a nuclear explosion”
― Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

“E poi quando si è con Tancredi ci si può forse irritare qualche volta, ma non ci si annoia mai; e
questo è molto.

Also, in Tancredi's company one may have moments of irritation, but never of boredom; and that means a great deal.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

“Microplastics will cause us so many problems, that wars will just seem like a small irritation.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“From Brandon's perspective, this kid possessed the unique ability (it was actually more of a gift) to get under his skin. Most of us know somebody like this. Through their words, actions, and even facial expressions, they evolve into a special breed of human able to push all the right buttons needed to get you upset, angry, or frustrated. It's an irritation really, like an inward pain you can't quite locate. These people needle you non-stop until they get the response they want. For reasons unknown, they somehow gain a sort of perverse pleasure out of making you upset. They decompose you. In the process your nerves resemble the ends of a frayed rope.
Come to think of it, those same people later grow up to be adults. And they don't go away, either. They work in your office, live in your neighborhood, and have children on your son's baseball team. Sometimes they even marry into your family! There is no escape from them.”
― Jeff Kinley

“Adesso al check-in, alla domanda "corridoio o finestrino?", rispondo "ovunque, purché non sia vicino a un bambini" e la hostess di terra, vittima anch'ella dietro il suo sorriso, mi guarda con comprensione. Entrambe siamo consapevoli che non c'è alcuna possibilità che una creatura di tre anni non rompa i coglioni a nessuno per la durata di un volo di nove ore e ogni mammina che imbarca un pargolo questo lo sa benissimo. È lei a mettere in conto che, in nome della presunta tenerezza che dovrebbe ispirare il suo bambino, le persone che incontrerà sopporteranno senza lamentarsi una quota di molestie che non hanno scelto. Questo tipo di mammina si incazza quando l'attesa tolleranza non si manifesta e cerca di ribaltare il piano delle cose. Diventa giudicante. Stizzita dice: "Ma è un bambini", come fosse il suo lasciapassare per imporlo al mondo. Lo vedo anch'io che è un bambino, dannata mammina, ma è proprio la ragione per cui non dovrebbe essere qui, tra adulti che non hanno e non vogliono bambini o che li hanno responsabilmente affidati ad altre persone pagate per subirli, invece che pretendere che i presenti di un intero ristorante, di un aereo o di uno scompartimento si imprivvisino gratis puericultrici, nonni e babysitter del tuo pargolo irrequieto.”
― Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi

“La verità è semplice e forse non ti piace, ma è quella: la maggior parte delle persone non fa figli proprio per non sopportare neanche dai suoi [figli] quello che tu stai chiedendo di tollerare dal tuo.”
― Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi

“All marriages are like this. The component parts are contempt and irritation because we know each other by heart, by rote; we're all graduates of the blab school for double harness. Then he looked at the redgold hair, the sweet curve of the mouth, and thought, Truthlie, because marriage is more than that. It's part hate, part love. It's remembered agony, and remembered delight.”
― Ann Petry, The Narrows

“How marvelous to live long enough to escape your past. 196

Finding instruction in irritation is like faking an orgasm. 58”
― Laurie Stone, Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening