Quotes About Frustration

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7, it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.

He wanted to open the door and rush downstairs and smash their laughter down their throats. His hand went up and found the cord that switched on the light, and he took a few steps toward the door. Then it occurred to him that they weren't worth it.

The truth is that at the time, I didn't have a genuine awareness of why I was so pissed off or even specifically who I was pissed off at. I was just pissed off.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. Anything. Anything for a fix of light. X. J. Kennedy, "Street Moths," The Lords of Misrule

Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?

They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat.

Having written this phrase, I set down my pencil. My new novel wasn't going very well. I seemed to be writing in circles, going backward, or running into dead ends, with no idea what should come next. Still, I often encountered this sort of writer's block, and I no longer took much notice of it.

Wie sehr wir uns auch bemühten, den anderen zu verstehen, es gab immer etwas, das sich unserem Verständnis entzog. Und je mehr wir darüber redeten, desto deprimierender wurde es.

I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried.

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

Online ads might be annoying, but so is the cashier at your bookstore. But you probably never told yourself: "I want these books and magazines, but that payment part is really annoying… It's an interruption in my day to stand in line and take out my credit card. So I'll just take all the books I wanted and walk out the store without the annoying part!".

The world shrivels me day by day.

People feel politics isn't about their lives.

Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

I fear I am losing my mind. I do not mean "losing my grasp of reality." I know perfectly well what is happening. But I am powerless to prevent the outcome. Each day, I have less strength of mind to resist.

So many things that might have been," Edgar said. "My life – I'm afraid – will be recorded as a series of things that are, and better things that might have been. My heart is sore, and I have never felt so weary.

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

So? Most people hate their jobs. That's why they're called jobs.

I'm not expressing myself very well—' 'Dexter, I understand you perfectly, that's the problem—