Quotes About Frustration

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.

Who cares?' she said impatiently, 'it's always one bloody war after another, and one knows the news is all lies anyway.

And even when they become discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

There is no comfort. Our lives dismay us. We have dreams of leaving and it is the same for everyone I know.

I'm thirty-nine years old. I've got a wife that I can't get rid of. I've got varicose veins. I've got five false teeth.

He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless,because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so ...

the mere difficulty of getting hold of a house is one of the worst aggravations of poverty.

Nothing in the world is quite so irritating as dealing with mutinous children.

Tanr? bana sinekleri kovay?m diye bir kuyruk vermi?; ama ke?ke sinekler de olmasayd?, kuyru?um da.

This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people's convenience, is inherent in working-class life. A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive rôle. He does not act, he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that 'they' will never allow him to do this, that and the other.

And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.

God, if they'd only break out and rebel properly for once!' he said to Ellis before starting. 'But it'll be a bloody washout as usual. Always the same story with these rebellions—peter out almost before they've begun. Would you believe it, I've never fired my gun at a fellow yet, not even a dacoit. Eleven years of it, not counting the War, and never killed a man. Depressing.' 'Oh

Better than before, moreover, he realized why it was that he hated her. He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.

It's curious how it gets you down to have a sticky neck.

He had written it down at last, but it made no difference. The therapy had not worked.

In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

Is there anything in the world more graceless, more dishonouring, than to desire a woman whom you will never have? Throughout

Well, Hilda and I were married, and right from the start it was a flop. Why did you marry her? you say. But why did you marry yours? These things happen to us. I wonder whether you'll believe that during the first two or three years I had serious thoughts of killing Hilda. Of course in practice one never does these things, they're only a kind of fantasy that one enjoys thinking about. Besides, chaps who murder their wives always get copped.

So, dear brothers, since evidently you must sweat to pay for our trips to Italy, sweat and be damned to you.

It was a formidable cry of anger … Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to.

If you look close enough and are in a bad mood, public service seems to be composed of paperwork and personal feuds.

At first I worked with good will, but as the months dragged on, I felt my spirit breaking.