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Quotes About Frustration

He was dismayed to find that his English—despite years of mandatory instruction in school, months of private lessons with a Bible studies PhD from Exeter visiting Israel to research Christ, repeated encounters with every episode of every season of Sex and the City (subtitled), sporadic encounters with Fast & Furious 1–6 (undubbed), and an aborted reading of the collected works of Sherlock Holmes (abridged)—sucked.
~ Joshua Cohen
Tammy said, "It's all just a matter of being exhausted with whatever's your normal. Over there, the Palestinians launch rockets and become suicide bombers—over here we just OD.
~ Joshua Cohen
All over America, in fact, people were up and out of their beds today in a continuing effort to polish turds. Sure, for the sake of survival, but more immediately for the sake of some sadistic manager or shit-brained client whose small imagination and numbingly dumb ideas were bleaching the world of all relevancy and hope.
~ Joshua Ferris
Looking up from the blank page to the blinking clock, he discovered it was only three-fifteen. He decided that today was perhaps the longest day of his life. Not only had he been called an idiot to his face, but he could do nothing to counter that opinion, because
~ Joshua Ferris
By infinitely multiplying this necessity to conform, at the expense of developing the individual, unique 'self,' society succeeds in making a man 'good.' By frustrating his potential in numberless ways from the time he is born till the time he dies, civilization instills in him a pattern which is so rigid that he is often unable to express his true self at all.
~ Joshua Loth Liebman
sickness of hope deferred
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk
Dragon was controlling himself admirably but he had the look of a man who has found something unpleasant on his boot.
~ Josie Litton
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.
~ Joss Whedon
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.
~ Joss Whedon
Alice heard a woman say, 'Before I start writing I feel affectionate, interested, and frustrated. In that order. Afterwards I feel relieved, disgusted, and confused. Sometimes I don't think it's worth it.
~ Joy Williams
El trabajo me parece una estupidez odiosa a la que es difícil escapar
~ Juan Carlos Onetti
La tragedia absoluta proclama axiomáticamente que es mejor no nacer o, en en caso que esto ya no sea posible, morir joven. El modelo <> de la condición del hombre y de la mujer considera a éstos intrusos no deseados de la creación, seres destinados a padecer sufrimientos y frustraciones inmerecidos, incomprensibles y arbitrarios
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Elaine complained about this at night, in her matrimonial bed, and then complained that in Colombia all the citizens were political but no politician wanted to do anything for the citizens.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Elaine se quejaba de esto en las noches, en su cama matrimonial, y luego se quejaba de que en Colombia todos los ciudadanos fueran políticos pero ningún político quisiera hacer nada por los
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
En el mundo existen millones de personas con talento que viven sus vidas en silenciosa desesperación, atrapados en oficios de mierda. ¿Por qué unos van en metro y otros en su avión privado? Es una cuestión de carácter. De querer realmente lo que deseamos
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Joder, padre. Es usted el único maldito políglota al que no le gusta hablar.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
The work can really bring out the worst side of you when you feel like someone else is ruining it. I can completely lose my mind.
~ Judd Apatow
I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.
~ Judd Gregg
Dougless gritted her teeth.
~ Jude Deveraux
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
~ Jude Law
Without money and without connections- I have failed you!
~ Jude Morgan
Mary watched a bluebottle endlessly hammering inself against the window-glass, and saw there love as she knew it, a painful beating against nothingness.
~ Jude Morgan
Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?
~ Jude Watson
There's something wrong with the brakes." He didn't recognize his shaky, weak voice. He pumped them again. Nothing.  "There's something wrong with the BRAKES?" "I don't think we have any." "We don't have any BRAKES?" "Bro, it doesn't help to repeat everything I say!" Jonah yelled.
~ Jude Watson