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Quotes About Frustration

Mais quand t'en as marre de dire non, tu finis par dire oui pour avoir la paix, et les problèmes commencent.
~ Didier van Cauwelaert
Twenty-two months had passed without bringing anything fresh and he had stayed there waiting, as if life could not but be specially lenient with him.
~ Dino Buzzati
Academic theology, without spiritual practices, can all too easily lead to frustration with our theological constructions and even a loss of faith, because the practice of theology can then degenerate into a display of individual virtuosity rather than being an effort to grow in knowledge and love of God.
~ Diogenes Allen
More tears began to flow, but tears of rage this time. Mona was furious with herself, with Hugh, but above all, with Jelkes, whom she recognised as acting as a kind of conscience to the pair of them.
~ Dion Fortune
I hate the past and for that matter the present
~ Dionne Brand
Diejenigen, die es "nie zu etwas brachten" (...), hätten es auch überall sonst nie zu etwas gebracht. Es wäre einfach nur lustvoller, es in Paris nie zu etwas zu bringen.
~ Djuna Barnes
I might have known better, nothing is what everybody wants, the world runs on that law. Personally, if I could, I would instigate Meat-Axe Day, and out of the goodness of my heart I would whack your head off with a couple of others. Every man should be allowed one day and a hatchet just to ease his heart.
~ Djuna Barnes
Don't have much else to say, my brain is about having brain scum all over you, much as I did, because it kept acting up.
~ Dodie Bellamy
Workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin' Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin' They just use your mind and you never get the credit It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it 9 to 5, yeah they got you where they want you There's a better life, and you dream about it, don't you? It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet
~ Dolly Parton
I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
~ Dominic Cooper
I'm an only child, and it wasn't always easy. There were a lot of games that were hard to play. Like catch. God, that was tiring.
~ Dominic Dierkes
A constant state of frustration is actually a subtle form of hostility rooted in anger at other people, at situations, and at circumstances.
~ Don Colbert
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
~ Don DeLillo
It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
~ Don DeLillo
Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.
~ Don DeLillo
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
~ Don Herold
Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
~ Don Marquis
Politics has clogged the air of my life.
~ Donald Hall
If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.
~ Donald Harington
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.
~ Jim Rohn
I've succeeded at everything except my life.
~ Serge Gainsbourg
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
~ Theodore Kaczynski
What is snowboarding to me? I'd say it's when I feel passion. That is, if passion is a combination of utter joy, frustration and rage. It's my life.
~ Travis Rice
I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
~ Martin Freeman