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Quotes About Frustration

They thought of frustration as a threshold, a factor to heighten awareness. It
~ Frank Herbert
I am surrounded by such useless clods. If I scattered sand before this creature and told him it was grain, he'd peck at it.
~ Frank Herbert
The plodding, self-important language of government enraged him.
~ Frank Herbert
Blast and damn that Duncan Idaho!
~ Frank Herbert
The boys from Staten Island would fill more body bags than Stuyvesant could ever imagine. Mechanics and plumbers had to fight while college students shook indignant fists, fornicated in the fields of Woodstock and sat in.
~ Frank McCourt
E greu de priceput de ce-È™i ies oamenii mari din pepeni chiar aÈ™a de r?u din cauza unor lucruri m?runte cum sunt capacele de aerisire. Când o s? fiu om mare, n-o sa stau sa pocnesc copiii mici din cauz? de capace de aerisire sau mai È™tiu eu ce.
~ Frank McCourt
On the other hand, venting one's frustrations at the keyboard typically produces a more impressive performance.
~ Frank Tallis
And don't demand any sincerity from me, Milena. No one can demand it from me more than I myself and yet many things elude me, I'm sure, perhaps everything eludes me.
~ Franz Kafka
If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.
~ Franz Kafka
However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them
~ Franz Kafka
In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting for it.
~ Franz Kafka
If he stayed at home and carried on with his normal life he would be a thousand times superior to these people and could get any of them out of his way just with a kick.
~ Franz Kafka
The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.
~ Franz Kafka
After tormenting myself for a long time, I am stopping. I am unable and in the near future will scarcely be able to complete the remaining pieces.
~ Franz Kafka
Anyway, it's best not to think about them, as if you do it makes the discussions with the other lawyers, all their advice and all that they do manage to achieve, seem so unpleasant and useless, I had that experience myself, just wanted to throw everything away and lay at home in bed and hear nothing more about it. But that, of course, would be the stupidest thing you could do, and you wouldn't be left in peace in bed for very long either.
~ Franz Kafka
Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again.
~ Franz Kafka
my joints ache with fatigue, my dried up body trembles toward its own destruction in turmoils of which I dare not become fully conscious, in my head are astonishing convulsions.
~ Franz Kafka
The gesture of rejection with which I was forever met did not mean: 'I do not love you,' but: 'You cannot love me, much as you would like; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your love for me is not in love with you.' It is consequently incorrect to say that I have known the words, 'I love you'; I have known only the expectant stillness that should have been broken by my 'I love you,' that is all that I have known, nothing more.
~ Franz Kafka
It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of impatience that they do not return.
~ Franz Kafka
When dealing with myself I am powerless.
~ Franz Kafka
Sometimes, and I don't know why, everything I want to say to you presses upon me with great intensity, like a crowd of people all trying to squeeze through a narrow door at once. And I have said nothing to you, less than nothing, for everything I have written recently has been false—not fundamentally, of course, because fundamentally everything is true—but with so much confusion and falseness on the surface that no one could be expected to see through it.
~ Franz Kafka
The man from the country has not expected such difficulties; the law, he thinks, should be accessible to everyone and at all times; but as he now takes a closer look at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, at his large pointed nose, his long, sparse, black Tartar beard, he decides that it is better, after all, to wait until he receives permission to enter.
~ Franz Kafka
I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end.
~ Franz Kafka
Scratch your flesh raw between your toes, but you won't find the answer.
~ Franz Kafka