Quotes About Frustration

He had run out of patience and pencils and was feeling very hungry.

The last thing he wanted after a hellish night like this one was some blasted day coming along and barging about the place.

So far they had not done well. They had attempted to eat some of them, bury others and throw the rest of them away. Arthur had finally encouraged one of them to lay a couple of stones on the board he had scratched out, which was not even as far as he'd managed to get the day before. Along with the rapid deterioration in the morale of these creatures, there seemed to be a corresponding deterioration in their actual intelligence

What . . . do . . . you . . . want?' 'I'm looking for someone.' 'Who?' hissed the insect. 'Zaphod Beeblebrox,' said Marvin, 'he's over there.' The insect shook with rage. It could hardly speak. 'Then why did you ask me?' it screamed. 'I just wanted something to talk to,' said Marvin. 'What!' 'Pathetic, isn't it?

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost for ever.

You're a jerk," repeated the alien, "a complete kneebiter.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" ? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

He pressed the entry for the relevant page. The screen flashed and swirled and resolved into a page of print. Arthur stared at it. "It doesn't have an entry!" he burst out.

Damn it and blast it, he thought, and felt the need of some guidance and advice. He consulted the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He looked up guidance and it said See under ADVICE. He looked up advice and it said see under GUIDANCE.

It deals with that most terrible and harrowing experience in life - trying to remember an address which somebody told you but you didn't write down.

Quello che lo irritava di più era il fatto che la gente era solita chiedergli sempre per quale ragione era così irritato.

Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up;

Look,' said Arthur, 'would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

God was like the phone company: You paid your bill, and sometimes you got cut off anyway.

Family is putting up with each other's shit sometimes I guess.

Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins.

I think computers ought to have a key called I'M DRUNK, and when you push it, it prevents you from sending email for twelve hours. I've got another one: a key called FUCK OFF. You press it every time your computer does something annoying -- in turn this would somehow force your computer to experience pain. And if you pushed SHIFT/FUCK OFF, you'd end up with FUCK OFF AND DIE, the computer equivalent of a razor being raked across your nipples.

I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.

This is not ambition. This is desperation.

It's hard to get mad at Neal, because he suffers from a medical condition called total fucking stupidity.

Hi! I'm Ethan, I shop at Ikea. I bought a $300 dining suite and it took me three days to assemble!

I am by now completely convinced that my downfall in life is going to be my inability to achieve computer nirvana like a true hacker or hackette. I think this lacking is the most unmodern facet of my personality—the career equivalent of having six fingers, or a vestigial tail.