Life is an irritation.

“Nonsense. One day, the right man will come along, and you’ll change your mind.” Harriet wasn’t so sure. In all her twenty-four years, she’d…

— Karen Hawkins

“You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So…

— Maximus the Confessor

“He is disappointed because he has solved the problem, and has gone back to the baseline state of boredom and low-level irritation that always…

— Neal Stephenson

By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to…

— Wayne Dyer

Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I…

— Indira Gandhi

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

— Dorothy Parker

When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a…

— Lewis Wolpert

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

— Anthony T. Hincks

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…

— John Irving

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on…

— Charles Buxton

In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and…

— Paul Valery

The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says…

— Nhat Hanh