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Quotes About Frustration

I am angry at being used as a pawn," I retorted. "I am not your chess piece to move as you see fit, my lady. I was not engaged upon this investigation simply because you wished to amuse Her Royal Highness or make certain Miles Ramsforth didn't hang. You were testing me.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Even his dog is an asshole.
~ Deanna Raybourn
It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.
~ Deb Caletti
I don't want her in my car." says Jenna. I don't want her in my life." says Michael. I hope she chokes on her fucking Frappuccino." says Akello.
~ Deb Caletti
The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I'm Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he's pissed off? Why, I'm not sure, Bob, but I'm going to go with 'Because I Left the Faucet Dripping.' BEEP. I'm sorry, that's incorrect. The correct answer is: 'Because You Happen to Exist.')
~ Deb Caletti
I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.
~ Deb Caletti
I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.
~ Deb Caletti
We had a humiliating and lengthy wait at a DONT WALK sign with not a car in sight for miles. Dad was a press about jaywalking. Or maybe he just like to stare down what he'd testily called the "grammatical error sanctioned by the state." There is, of course, no apostrophe in the DONT WALK sign.
~ Deb Caletti
How can I expect to get anything done around here with you touching me like that?
~ Faith Sullivan, Meant for Me
Reinforce your positive thoughts and Redirect to the substantial energy of your frustration.
~ Napz Cherub Pellazo
The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Hatred is a louder exhibition of inability.
~ Qaisar Iqbal Janjua
He won't listen to the music, and I can't turn it off.
~ V.C. Andrews
The difference between what you expect and what you get is the problem.
~ Err:509
We live a life of opposites. We want things we can't have and have things we don't want.
~ Raymond C. Nolan
I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.
~ Jim Parsons
So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.
~ Marilyn Manson
You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
~ Josh Lieb
I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.
~ Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.
~ Arundhati Roy
Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.
~ Richard Russo
Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.
~ Geoff Dyer
As humans, we get filled with jealousy, at times, and rage, and I am no exception. I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.
~ Nicholas D'Agosto
If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.
~ Sei Shonagon