Vexed Life Quotes

#1. The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

Sydney Smith

#2. In particular, I'd realized that although I possessed all the elements of a happy life, too often I took my circumstances for granted and allowed myself to become overly vexed by petty annoyances or fleeting worries. I'd wanted to appreciate my life more, and to live up to it better.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. Flynn," Jeth hissed, crossing his arms. "This isn't the high seas. This is the middle of space. We don't have any lifeboats, and we don't need panic. We need solutions.

Mindee Arnett

#4. Nihilism, narcissism, and hedonism are natural results of the chaotic existential subjectivism popularized by the Left. If the hallmark of the baby boomers was rebellion, the hallmark of my generation is jadedness. Nothing really matters - we're cosmically alone.

Ben Shapiro

#5. Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#6. Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

Jason Priestley

#8. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

#9. This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.

Susan Jacoby

#10. Why did the reindeer fly over the mountain? Answer: Because he couldn't fly under it.

Andrew Miller

#11. Welladay! Welladay!
For the winds of May!
Love is unhappy when love is away!

James Joyce

#12. When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.

Ogden Nash

#13. When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise ... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed ... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free ...

Henri Matisse

#14. You're gonna be going to rock shows for the rest of your natural life right ladies?. You're gonna see sleezy ass rockbands. They're gonna come up to you and ask you, to show your tits for a backstage pass. You know what I want you to fucking do? I want you to spit right in their FUCKING FACE.

Gerard Way

#15. Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Gerard Way

#16. Critical friends; I admire the most.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#17. What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#18. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Norman Vincent Peale

#19. If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.

Lara Stone

#20. Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

Sophocles

#21. We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

Fred Melamed

#22. I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting.

Laura Quinn