Quotes About Frustration

Al final —concluyó con abatimiento—, ya no sabía qué estaba haciendo allí. Sólo sabía que, fuera lo que fuese, no tenía el menor sentido. —Esto que acabas de describir —le dije— se llama trabajar.

Trabajaba en un Juzgado que había sabido funcionar bien, pero que ahora estaba en manos de un boludo. Y un boludo de la peor especie: un boludo con ansias de rápidos ascensos.

Y lo peor (en realidad no sé si es lo peor, o es igual de malo que todo lo que llevo escrito hasta acá) es que no tengo con quien hablarlo, y eso me hace sentir solo. Estar enamorado de una mujer y no poder hacer nada al respecto es terrible. Pero estar enamorado de esa mujer y encima tener que callarlo, y hacer como que no pasa nada, y mirar a otra parte cada vez que uno la tiene al otro lado de la mesa y se muere por mirarla...

Hayduke smelled something foul in all this. A smoldering bitterness warmed his heart and nerves; the slow fires of anger kept his cockles warm, his hackles rising. Hayduke burned. And he was not a patient man.

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

I swear . . . if you existed I'd divorce you.

When I saw that things which were to me so intolerable moved them not at all, that words that melted my heart to speak had only offended them with the speaker, I was at first stunned and then overcome with a desperate sickness and faintness at the heart

I need a kid like I need a bad heart. A pretty kid is a ticket to trouble... and I'm too old to ask for that. Shit, I haven't even booked Tommy the Face in two years. I'm turning into a jack-off idiot.

Your basic problem is emotional immaturity. You want life to be like in the movies, full of excitement. That's how a child's mind works, but the adults accept regularity, tedium, frustration.

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

En ik sta te denken dat je toch gehoopt zou hebben dat iemand na al die tijd een douche zou hebben uitgevonden waarbij het gemakkelijk is om het water op de juiste temperatuur te krijgen. Maar dat lijkt de zoveelste te zijn dat de mensheid maar niet voor elkaar krijgt.

The afternoon arrived like an aggrieved trade unionist.

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

Summer vacation is the time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.

I really hate this darn machine; I wish that they would sell it. It won't do what I want it to, but only what I tell it.

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.

SNAFU (Situation Normal All Fucked Up).

I can't get no satisfaction…I can't get no girl reaction.

"Murphy's Law": If something can go wrong, it will.

Multiplication is vexation,Division is as bad;The rule of three doth puzzle me,And practice drives me mad.

Why am I always the bridesmaid,Never the blushing bride?

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.