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Quotes About Frustration

Dear God. Brad the Dragon. I swear, if I ever meet that author, I'm going to strangle him with a Brad the Dragon stuffed animal, wrap him in a Brad the Dragon blanket and throw his body out to sea.
~ Susan Mallery
down the hall toward the meeting rooms. At the far end, she saw a familiar figure wrestling with a vacuum. As she watched, Courtney tripped over the cord and nearly plowed face-first into the wall. A combination of love and frustration swelled up inside her. There was a reason the phrase was "pulling a Courtney." Because if someone was going to stumble, fall, drop, break or slip, it was her baby sister.
~ Susan Mallery
When couples cannot talk about their problems in a healthy way and become entrenched in their opinions, they have the same failed conversations over and over.  The relationship becomes emotionally clogged. Friction and frustration grow. Partners feel rejected, like they can't get through to one another.  Behaviors associated with conflict avoidance include passive aggressive behavior, withdrawal. 
~ Susan Scott
And because of all that we have been through, I am sick of the word unprecedented. The use of the word unprecedented is unprecedented. Make it stop.
~ Susan Scott
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
~ Susan Sontag
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration.
~ Susan Sontag
My repressed feelings leak out —slowly – in the form of resentment – a continual leakage of resentment.
~ Susan Sontag
And they didn't think to tell me they were using something that might not work?" Margie felt dizzy with rage. It blew her mind that no one had bothered to explain this to her. It was a violation of a different kind, a complete disregard for her as a person.
~ Susan Wiggs
Instead of this dumb rain check idea, I'll write a song about a guy who likes a girl who works in a bookstore but he won't tell her. And the clichés keep coming, he grumbled. Quit being one, then, she said.
~ Susan Wiggs
If I'd known how the week was going to turn out I would have sent it back first thing Monday and asked for a refund.
~ Susan Wittig Albert
I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.
~ Susanna Clarke
It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.
~ Susanna Clarke
Wheres the damn food at
~ Joseph Stalin
So I, like, try to live a decent life, bro. What I wanna know is, why does God treat me like a butt crumb?" "Dude," Flotsam said, "sometimes it just seems like God takes a day off to go to the track or something.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.
~ Joseph Wheelan
the brush and flung it across the dressing
~ Josephine Cox
but you have been in my hair for the last fourteen days, and I shall be very glad to get you out.
~ Josephine Tey
The printer is broken again! Nothing prints!
~ Josh Golin
Don't get angry, get bangry.
~ Josh Henderson
Things that annoy me end up fueling my ideas.
~ Josh James
While Martha's skins fell off her tomatoes like a silk slip off a supermodel, our skins got caught in the deep folds and stuck stubbornly. It was like trying to peel leather pants off of a sweaty, hairy, fat guy.
~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Last night they hadn't even fucked. What the hell was the point of protective custody if you weren't at least going to get to have sex with your protector?
~ Josh Lanyon
What the hell was the point of protective custody if you weren't at least going to get to have sex with your protector?
~ Josh Lanyon
The computer finally booted but could not find its modem, the modem could not find a signal and the helpscreen automatically loaded. Diagnostic scan in progress. Rotating hourglass, grains in the queue. Quit everything, restart. Quit everything, shut down, unplug, burn the house, build another house, replug, restart.
~ Joshua Cohen