Quotes About Frustration

Really, it's not easy being the badly brought-up center of attention of a family of nitpickers.

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should, stupid, cowardly, calculating, etc., etc. All day long I hear nothing but what an exasperating child I am, and although I laugh it off and pretend not to mind, I do mind. I wish I could ask God to give me another personality, one that doesn't antagonize everyone.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen.

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.

I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I give up. Come and get me.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.

When we think we can do it all ourselves--fix, save, buy, or date a nice solution--it's hopeless. We're going to screw things up. We're going to get our tentacles wrapped around things and squirt our squiddy ink all over, so that there is even less visibility, and then we're going to squeeze the very life out of everything.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

By the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.

Being human can be so dispiriting. It is a real stretch for me a lot of the time.

Additionally, I have spent approximately 1,736 hours of this one precious life waiting for the man to finish and pretending that felt good. And I want a refund.

There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.

My good ideas for other people so often seem to annoy them.

Vonnegut said, "When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth." So

Writer's block is going to happen to you. You will read what little you've written lately and see with absolute clarity that it is total dog shit.

They are angry people. This is why they write.

So, writing. What a bitch.

Getting all your addictions under control is like trying to put an octopus to bed

Vonnegut said, "When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

Try to be a good sport, baby. Sharon feels as bad as you do. It's all right for you to be mad, but...try to be as good a sport as you can. I'll tell you. It's a run-of-the-mill shitty thing. Life is full of them. And it is ALWAYS feels better to be kind.

Sometimes I could not tell you exactly why, especially when it feels pointless and pitiful, like Sisyphus with cash-flow problems. Other

Jubal threw his sign down in disgust and stalked away from the group. Sosi ran after him, the clipboard with the soggy petition

Sometimes those who cannot create enjoy the power to destroy.