But she had heard, how men of Trojan seed / those Tyrian towers should level, how again / from these in time a nation should proceed, / wide-ruling, tyrannous in war, the bane / (so Fate was working) of the Libyan reign.

Mosquitoes are the bane of my existence.

This cat is the bane of my life.

Auto-correct is the bane of my existence.

Unconscionable Love, bane and tormentor of mankind, parent of strife, fountain of tears, source of a thousand ills.