Vexation Quotes

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.

Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.

However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale... The end of it all is vexation of spirit.

In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are looking for some neutral means which will be a nonconductor of the current called "emotion" and its concomitant of evaluation.

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.