Quotes About Frustration

should be relieved, but I'm pissed. The irony is that he's probably still going to dominate my life.

this is the downside of intuition: when it feels so exactly right, other people's skepticism is infuriating.

What I wanted was to bang by forehead against the steering wheel till it bled. Maybe the self-inflicted pain would help me clear my thought process.

Kim Bass, Receptionist, was nowhere to be seen. This was fortunate, as I was so irritated with the way she'd treated me, I might have bitten her on the arm. I'd been a biter as a kid and I can still remember the feel of flesh between my teeth. It's like biting a rubber bathing cap, in case you're curious.

A veces los hombres somos necios y tomamos lo que no queremos porque pensamos que no podemos tener lo que deseamos.

They find tending to a child unsatisfying and frustrating when it interferes with their personal interests and activities. Their complaints are not centered on a partner's lack of support—they dismiss their need for support most of the time—but rather on their own irritation and discomfort.

It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night that Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long.

The longer partners feel disconnected, the more negative their interactions become

Shitbucket, hellfire, damnation, and son of a mother bitch, said Rosaleen, laying into each word like it was sweet potatoes on her tongue.

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

What a shitbucket.

this endless reaching for what couldn't be reached. It seemed foolish

She'd started out the morning hating all young men. Then she'd become so angry with her law professor that she'd quit school. Finally, she'd gone to eat rice with a man she didn't know.

The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege.

afflicted, piss'd in the brook, had a thump over the head with Sampson's jawbone

The very moment I admitted we were flirting, I lost patience for it.

When we are thwarted, frustrated, and punished way out of proportion to what we've done, it's inevitable that enormous anger builds inside us.

What is so distressing about the use of denial as a tactic is that you are left with nothing to deal with. It creates a sense of desperate frustration. There is no way to resolve a problem with someone who denies the existence of certain events and who insists that what you know to be real never happened.

When a child isn't allowed to deal with his frustrations on his own—to cry, for instance, then to handle the situation, and then to go on playing—because his mother is always there to intervene and rescue him from any discomfort, in adulthood he will be unable to handle even the most minor setbacks.

It's extremely frustrating when you've worked hard to get to the point of confrontation, but one or both of your parents are dead.

I'm going to kill him. I'm a lawyer. I can keep myself out of jail.

Shit, fuck, damn." Disappointment tied her in knots. "I was really only interested in that middle part," she joked.

She still wanted to slap something. Or throw something. The fish offered a tempting target but, before she could figure out who would fly across the room best, she heard the front door open and a man speaking to Tina.