Vexation Of Spirit Quotes

#1. No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of them 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 more vanity and vexation of spirit.

Anne Bronte

#2. 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.

Walter Weyl

#3. 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.

Thomas Paine

#4. I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#5. To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.

John Tillotson

#6. And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Anonymous

#7. 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.

Helen Keller

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

Frederic Reynolds

#9. I'm drowning and you're stealing every breath.

Cher Lloyd

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

Max Ehrmann

#11. Even "meant to be" takes work.

Donna Lynn Hope

#12. Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, for they heed not thy vexation.

Robin Brande

#13. Never hate an enemy; love them and transform them into a friend.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

Michael Fassbender

#15. System 1 represents sets by averages, norms, and prototypes, not by sums. Each

Daniel Kahneman

#16. And finally, she saw him smile. It chased the shadows from his face and made him a boy again. It was a smile that a woman could grow to yearn for.

Joss Alexander

#17. When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.

Ray Bradbury

#18. My tone must have seemed hostile, even though I wasn't angry or offended; there was just a touch of sarcasm. He tried to respond but he did so in an awkward, muddled way, half in dialect, half in Italian. He said he was sure that his mother was wandering around Naples as usual.

Elena Ferrante

#19. The main thing is that this band keeps going.

Jerry Only