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Quotes About Frustration

I read the paper about suicides and murders and I understand it all thoroughly. I feel murderous, suicidal. I feel somehow that it is a disgrace to do nothing, to just bide one's time, to take it philosophically, to be sensible.
~ Anais Nin
I'm sick of my own romanticism!
~ Anais Nin
Oh, I thought, without a doubt, everything in my life is falling to pieces. Nothing that my hand grasps can my hand hold.
~ Andre Gide
There is nothing more tragic for a man who has been expecting to die than a long convalescence.
~ Andre Gide
The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.
~ Andreï Makine
Mi chiamo Davide Griffo e sono mortificato per avere alzato la voce, ma non capivo quello che il suo agente mi andava dicendo. È straniero?». Montalbano preferì sorvolare.
~ Andrea Camilleri
Und ich hasse die Mittelschichts-Blödmänner, die so viel zu sagen haben, aber nie einen einzigen verdammten Tag mit dem Versuch verbracht haben, am Leben zu bleiben.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Why are they all trying to make me into a saint? Oh God! Oh God! I want to do things. Stop turning me into a saint.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
If this had been any other racetrack, I would have packed my bags and left.
~ Andrew Beyer
I was committing the most amateurish of errors—escalating my wagers in an attempt to get even—but
~ Andrew Beyer
For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.
~ Andrew Hodges
The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
one million furious you didn't call for sex, but only five actually available to meet you.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Ninety years old and chatttering, chattering away as if the cure for his inability to speak Japanese were the application of more Japanese.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
You feel all the time that you want to do something, that there is some affect unavailable to you, that there's a physical need of impossible urgency and discomfort for which there is no relief, as though you were constantly vomiting from your stomach but had no mouth.
~ Andrew Solomon
Realitatea faptului c? trebuia s? îmi pun nu una, ci DOUÄ' È™osete, È™i apoi DOI pantofi m? copleÈ™ea, È™i voiam s? m? întorc în pat.
~ Andrew Solomon
screaming caterpillar that just screams and screams and when you ask it to stop it just keeps screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and scream—
~ Andy Griffiths
a screaming caterpillar that just screams and screams and when you ask it to stop it just keeps screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming and scream—
~ Andy Griffiths
which pisses her off and makes her scream and i look around my room and miss me.
~ Angela Johnson
All the picketers look bored and hot and like they
~ Anita Shreve
God. I couldn't have stood another minute of it. Straight people are so depressing.
~ Ann Bannon
She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.
~ Ann Brashares
She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.
~ Ann Brashares
She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
~ Ann Brashares