Quotes About Frustration

What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.

Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Uno tiene que ponerse a la faena. El mundo está lleno de perezosos y de pesimistas que nada consiguen porque a nada se aplican, después se permiten quejarse y se sienten frustrados y alimentan su resentimiento hacia lo externo.

el peor de todos los tipos es el llanto por frustración; cuando lloras porque no puedes más, aunque no tengas un motivo aparente. Cuando pasas mucho tiempo siendo fuerte o creyendo que lo eres, creando un muro a tu alrededor que sirva de fortaleza, y de pronto, cuando menos lo esperas, te das cuenta de que no puedes cambiar las cosas.

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters.

Here you are again. All messed up and no place to go.

Confound it, Madam, my head is out of bounds! It's the one spot where I can have a bit of peace!

Or we of the tribe who delude ourselves into thinking the Orioles will one day win the World Series!

She was pregnant. She was pregnant. That complete fuck.

Une fois de plus, ma soeur m'a empêchée d'aller où je voulais.

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

Ayla, what am I doing wrong?" he asked, standing in front of her, dripping. "It's not you. I'm the one who's doingit wrong." "You're not doing anything wrong." "Yes I am. I've been trying all day to encourage you, but you don't understand Clan gestures.

He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.

But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em, there's times when they jes wont come.

I came up with a pen and tablet hoping to write an immortal short story, but I've been having a dreadful time with my heroine— I CAN'T make her behave as I want her to behave; so I've abandoned her for the moment, and am writing to you.

The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying, "Perhaps it's all for the best," when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia.

FOR THE THIRD TIME THAT WEEK, Harry Jones had taken my parking spot. So I decided to hide a key of uncut Columbian ya ya in a dead baby and stick it in his trunk under his spare tire.

and Boyer has to be on the Jack Nicholson end of the old routine in which he tries to order a slice of cheese that comes only with the apple pie. (Why did no one mention that Five Easy Pieces [1970], with its "hold the chicken salad, just give me the toast" routine, was recycling old-movie dialogue that had appeared in many films?)

For all her love of words, at times they're entirely insufficient.

Por mais que ame as palavras, por vezes elas são completamente insuficientes.

Her father had been forced to cancel her clarinet lessons after the neighbors complained about the practicing.