Vexation Quotations

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

All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.