Exasperation Quotes

37 Exasperation quotes by 29 unique authors

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive… — Diane Arbus
We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe. — Anne Robinson
I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one… — Gustave Flaubert
I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic… — Sarah Lacy
It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body. — Norman Cousins
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated,… — Thomas Carlyle
The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation. — Phyllis McGinley
Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision. — Barber Conable
Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame… — Cassandra Clare
God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will… — Rick Riordan
Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise. Did that hurt?" Halt asked, and Horace looked at him with exasperation.… — John Flanagan
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --… — Hannah Arendt
Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all… — Will Self
You…made…me…faint,” I accused him dizzily. “What am I going to do with you?” he groaned in exasperation. “Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me!… — Stephenie Meyer
Leo dropped into the pool and approched the cage. "Hola, Tia. Little bit of trouble?" She [Hera] crossed her arms and sighed in exasperation. "Don't… — Rick Riordan
The voice was low and tinged with a hint of Scotland. It would have caused Alexia to shiver and think primal monkey thoughts about moons… — Gail Carriger
Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture. — Vladimir Nabokov
Because they're probably long gone. Are you hurt?" Gabe asked with enough urgency that she realized he must have felt shiver in delayed reaction to… — Cindy Gerard
There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says. 'Done,' I say. 'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation.… — Suzanne Collins
The dark prince sat astride his black steed, his sable cape flowing behind him. A golden circlet bound his blond locks, his handsome face was… — Cassandra Clare
Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands… — Karen Marie Moning
Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The… — Charlotte Bronte
I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people. — Dorothy Dunnett
You have many flaws, he announced... “But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison.” “Was?” she asked. “I don't… — Julie Garwood
Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more… — Ann Voskamp

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