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Quotes About Frustration

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.
~ John Dos Passos
It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
~ Don DeLillo
My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
~ Doris Lessing
People who say life is precious don't spend much time on line at the airport.
~ Dov Davidoff
It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!
~ Emily Eden
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
~ Joe Klein
I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.
~ Joel Courtney
The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
~ Pat Paulsen
I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.
~ Peter Falk
Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.
~ Rex Stout
She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.
~ Charles Dickens
If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.
~ Delia Smith
Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.
~ Erin McCarthy
Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.
~ Nancy Pearcey
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
~ Nick Cave
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
~ John Updike
When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.
~ Scott Adams
That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.
~ Sean Penn
And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.
~ Gayle Forman
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
~ George Orwell
I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.
~ Jimmy Nail