Quotes About Frustration

Things should be good, I tell myself, but they're, well, not-so-good. Nothing seems to make sense – and it should (shouldn't it?). Granted, things weren't exactly perfect before, but now they're definitely worse (…or so it seems). And this on top of the simplest of things: having to live a life.

When he says, "Why can't you follow a recipe?" I am hurt, because I know that he is not just asking why I can't be told what to do, but also why I can't let things be simple.

Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.

and after all, it wasn't her fault that she was an idiot and had two ridiculous children. Life isn't fair and never has been.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

A leaf flattened itself against the window beside his head and leaped away into the darkness, and a feeling of profound despair came over him because everything he had done was useless. All that he believed in and had attempted to prove seemed meager, all of his life was wasted

insults were exchanged, but never conversation" (p.17).

Kat threw a glance over her shoulder, apparently checking to be sure they weren't being followed. When she saw nothing, she slacked her rapid pace a bit. "I've just had it up to my eyeballs with those guys. Them and their stupid feelings." "What

You can write a song for someone, and then their mom doesn't like it, and then it doesn't get released. It could be the best song that you've ever written. I hated that, because I didn't have any control.

I made two or three albums with money from my own pocket, but I couldn't get them released or played on the radio. I got tired of beating my brains out. I got very depressed. I took a break from the business. Then I got bored with that and had to come back.

The day my film 'Dum' released, it was available on pirated DVDs and VCDs. They showed the movie on cable channels. It was pathetic. It was so frustrating.

I was not released by the UFC.

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

I have this restlessness. I'm relentless to do things. My wife will say I'm an absolute nightmare.

In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.

When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.

I gained over 100 lbs. that I could never lose. My hair was falling out. I was tired all the time. I couldn't maintain muscle. I had no energy. It gave me some relief that there was something actually wrong with me and I wasn't crazy, but it was really hard knowing that there is something wrong with my body and I couldn't fix it.

It was a relief to get dropped which is sad in a way because you never want to miss a game. But I was not performing and mentally I got to a stage where I was not concentrating and did not want to be there. I was not enjoying walking out there and feeling like I didn't know where the next run was coming from.

I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. 'Postcards' was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while 'Ghostwriting' was relieving myself.

Sometimes when you lose your mobile phone, even though it's frustrating, it's sort of rewarding in many ways because, though we do rely on them a lot, we are not reliant on them. The world continues without.

I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.

Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.

The fact remains that I am a very artless and incompetent writer.