Quotes About Frustration

he kept getting glimmers of hope—hope that died instantly when he moved the chairs aside and saw nothing there.

But he could not help wondering, as he did, that if he was so damn wise, why was his life in such a mess?

Blasted doorknob of a kender

I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.

Nunca he escrito, creyendo hacerlo, nunca he amado, creyendo amar, nunca he hecho nada salvo esperar delante de la puerta cerrada.

Que no la conocerá nunca, que no tiene los medios para conocer tanta perversidad. Ni de dar tantos y tantos rodeos para atraparla, nunca lo conseguirá.

Pero el miedo no me abandonaba. Quería matar, a mi hermano mayor, quería matarle, llegar a vencerle una vez, una sola vez y verle morir.

Ugh. Don't even get me started. It's like teachers think we have nothing better to do with our lives than to come home and do more schoolwork.) [SirLeo] (It's coz they're old and have no lives and want to punish those who do.)

I click to buy it and I'm furious to discover that it's not available in Ireland and they won't post it from abroad and the only place that sells it is Harrods and it's impossible for me to go to Harrods because it's like being trapped in an Escher painting.

Who's in charge around here? I'd like to complain about my life. I distinctly ordered a happy life with a loving husband to go with my newborn baby and what was this shoddy travesty that I'd been served up instead?

Go home, old woman, I'm tired and you're annoying me.

But, as we all know, the first law of shopping says that when you're urgently looking for something specific, you've no hope of finding it.

It amuses me to think how angry I used to get when people wouldn't sign my peace petitions.

He repeated his question. "Your love life?" "Same old, you know. Nothing out there. All the good men are gay.

What bothered her was not that the tasks that had to be done were exerting. It was not even that they were tedious. It was that she felt that the three others lived their lives and she went around after them cleaning up their mess. She was an unpaid servant, expected to do a superlative job. In return, she was permitted to call this house hers. But so did they.

Hobbs dominating the conversation with so long a catalogue of his woes that Jack fell behind to avoid having to listen.

I know it'll be all right, but it makes me mad.

but if there was one thing I should have learned from them and did not learn, it was to control my temper. This is wisdom I should have attained a long time ago. Even now, when a flutter of my pulse makes me think of final things, I find myself losing my temper, because a drawer sticks or because I've misplaced my glasses.

The truth now. He was disappointed in human beings. He had seen too many betrayals, too many pitiful weaknesses, too much greed for money and fame. The falseness between lovers, husbands and wifes, fathers, sons, mothers, daughters

Suspiró, abrumado por los niveles de imbecilidad que padecía el mundo.

Soñaba toda la semana con la salida, pero apenas entraba a su casa se sentía irritado: la abrumadora obsequiosidad de su madre era tan mortificante como el encierro.

De todos modos, escribir lo que no se vivía para hacerse la idea de vivirlo, llevaba ya implícito un castigo: la sensación de fracaso y frustración con que terminaban siempre los juegos mentirosos de sus diarios. (y también los hechos vividos, por lo demás) Pero, ahora, esos juegos irresponsables habían puesto en manos del enemigo un arma formidable para envilecer su nombre y su memoria

and felt a little stabbing impulse to kick the squire on his backside as he left the room.

suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.