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Quotes About Frustration

Happiness was just a trick in your case.
~ Alice Walker
So he bought her a car, only he refuse to show her how to drive it.
~ Alice Walker
This, then, was the power people like us had. The power to enslave others and to frustrate their dreams.
~ Alice Walker
When a movement awakens people to the possibilities of life, it seems unfair to frustrate them by then denying what they had thought was offered. But what was offered? What was promised? What was it all about? What good did it do? Would it have been better, as some have suggested, to leave the Negro people as they were, unawakened, unallied with one another, unhopeful about what to expect for their children in some future world?
~ Alice Walker
Can't you see I'm already half dead.
~ Alice Walker
she say her head feel like its full of little white men with hammers.
~ Alice Walker
I have talked to many international sporting men and women and there is one common denominator that has driven them to excellence,' Atkinson continues. 'That is the frustration and hurt they have experienced from someone who has told them they would never achieve or be good at anything.
~ Alison Kervin
Linda was keen to try, but musicianship and songwriting did not come easily to her, and she quickly discovered that she could not count on master classes from her highly accomplished husband. "No, he is not a good teacher, Paul," she said in a frank moment. "He has no patience what-so-ever with somebody who doesn't know. He
~ Allan Kozinn
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Shit, Violence, bullets in the brain Unavailing. We're in too deep to pull out. Waiting for an orgasm, Mr. Baldwin? Yes, waiting for an orgasm that's all.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I'm with you in Rockland where you scream in a straightjacket that you're losing the game of the actual pingpong of the abyss
~ Allen Ginsberg
who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and were forced to open antique stores where they thought they were growing old and cried.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
~ Allen Ginsberg
who plunged themselves under meat trucks looking for an egg, who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade, who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and were forced to open antique stores where they thought they were growing old and cried...
~ Allen Ginsberg
TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Life's a queue of small irritations with the Last Door at the end.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Prickomo fucking cocksca. That bastard old arsehole-fucker.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Freedom did not seem to have made anyone any less angry.
~ Joe Abercrombie
She was the scab he couldn't stop picking, the split lip he couldn't stop biting at, the loose thread he couldn't stop tugging
~ Joe Abercrombie
He blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. 'Shit!' he roared at nothing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
life is the misery we endure between disappointments
~ Joe Abercrombie
Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes that we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
~ Joe Abercrombie
As commander of a battalion his trade had been to fight the enemy with steel. As a staff officer, it seemed, his role was to fight his own side with paper, more secretary than soldier. He felt like a man trying to push a huge stone up a hill. Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were in just the same danger lazed on the slopes beside him saying, "Well, it's not my rock.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Fucking pinks," she hissed to herself.
~ Joe Abercrombie