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Quotes About Frustration

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.
~ Rosalind Wiseman
Usually the impetus for transforming your own past will come from a feeling of hopelessness in the present, a sense that you have been through the same frustrating experience time and again. Our analytic powers don't seem to help, though some of us never weary of exercising them.
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Government is more like sex than people think. When you are having good sex, you don't appreciate it enough. When you are having bad sex, it is all you can think about.
~ Louise Erdrich
The jittery focus, the devastated shelves, a couple of fights breaking out over paper towels, a swarm descending on an employee trying to restock toilet paper, madness in people's eyes—it was like the beginning of every show where the streets empty and some grotesque majestic entity emerges from mist or fire.
~ Louise Erdrich
Government is more like sex than people think. When you are having good sex, you don't appreciate it enough. When you are having bad sex, it is all you can think about.
~ Louise Erdrich
I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.
~ Louise Rennison
Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?
~ Louise Rennison
I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.
~ Louise Rennison
When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made.
~ Louise Rennison
whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to bounce their bullshit off of ... blah! and blah! and blahblahblah! ... you put up with it for an hour, you'll need two weeks to recover ... blah! blah!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started...
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offense.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
He had the same trouble as all intellectuals—he was ineffectual. He knew too many things, and they confused him.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
De cum pui piciorul undeva,ambiÅ£ii se trezesc în tine.Eu unul aveam vocaÅ£ia s? fiu bolnav,bolnav ÅŸi nimic mai mult.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Les choses auxquelles on tenait le plus vous vous décidez un jour à en parler de moins en moins avec effort quand il faut s'y mettre. On en a bien marre de s'écouter toujours causer...on abrège...on renonce...ça dure depuis trente ans qu'on cause...on ne tient plus à avoir raison. L'envie vous lâche de garder la petite place qu'on s'était réservée parmi les plaisirs... on se dégoûte
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You make it sound mad," Sylvie said. "As if it drives you crazy.
~ Luanne Rice
He seemed so terribly weak. She would have had more respect for him if he'd told her to go fuck herself. ' I have to go to sleep' she'd scathe. Then she'd roll over, and so would he. They'd be lying there like two strangers who just happened to be sharing the same bed. It was in those moments she began to plot her escape.
~ Lucinda Rosenfeld
Everything had come easily to her. her whole life: This was the only thing that remained resolutely beyond her control.
~ Lucy Diamond
Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can't, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I am now in another hole, though I have to say, it is no better than the old one. Living with human beings is hard!
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it. (That so often happens with someone you love.)
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein