Quotes About Frustration

America has become what Francis Fukuyama calls a "vetocracy." The system of checks and balances, replicated at every level of government, ensures that someone, somewhere can always block any positive action. The United States has become a nation of naysayers.

Having voted in ways that ensure gridlock, Americans point to that very gridlock and despair that any good can come from Washington.

I thought i could wake up this sleeping country with my cries, but still they sleep as if in a dream.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

There's a thin sheet of glass between me and life. However clearly I see and understand life, I can't touch it.

Voi fi întotdeauna cel care a aÈ™teptat s? i se deschid? uÈ™a, în faÈ›a unui perete f?r? u??".

And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel like I could kill him for barging in on what I wasn't thinking. I turn around and look at him with a silence full of hatred, tense with latent homicide, my mind already hearing the voice he'll use to tell me something or other. He smiles from the other side of the room and says 'Good afternoon' in a loud voice. I hate him like the universe. My eyes are sore from imagining.

I asked for so little from life and life denied me even that.

I have to choose what I detest – either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born.

I'll always be the one who waited for a door to open in a wall without doors

It offends me that a man can master the Devil, but not the Portuguese language.

Nothing satisfies me, nothing consoles me; everything that has been and that hasn't been jades me. I don't want to have my soul and don't want to renounce it. I want what I don't want and renounce what I don't have. I can't be nothing nor be everything: I'm the bridge between what I don't have and what I don't want.

Seré siempre el que esperó a que le abrieran la puerta, junto a un muro sin puerta

Querer é não poder. Quem pôde, quis antes de poder só depois de poder. Quem quer nunca há-de poder, porque se perde em querer.

To conform is to submit, and to conquer is to conform, to be conquered. Thus every victory is a debasement. The conqueror inevitably loses all the marks of frustration with the status quo that led him to the fight that brought victory. He becomes satisfied, and only those who conform – who lack the conqueror's mentality – are satisfied. Only the man who never achieves his goal conquers. Only the man who is forever discouraged is strong.

Wanting to go and die in Peking and not being able to is something that weighs on me like the idea of some imminent cataclysm.

What grieves me is that my best is no good, and that another whom I dream of, if he existed, would have done it better.

I've witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all that I wanted to be.

Every day I'm mistreated by Matter.

He vivido tanto sin haber vivido! ¡He pensado tanto sin haber pensado! Pesan sobre mí mundos de violencias detenidas, de aventuras vividas sin movimiento. Estoy harto de lo que nunca he tenido ni tendré, tedioso de dioses por existir. Llevo conmigo las heridas de todas las batallas que he evitado. Mi cuerpo muscular está molido por el esfuerzo que no he podido hacer.

I am troubled by a crushing physical sense of other people's lack of comprehension.

I want to be exactly like what I wanted to be and am not.

Every effort is a crime, because every gesture is a dead dream.

The tragic futility of life.