Quotes About Frustration

C'est donc cela, la vie d'adulte ; construire des châteaux de sable puis sauter dessus à pieds joints, et recommencer l'action, encore et encore, alors qu'on sait bien que les océans les auraient effacées de toute façon ?

Une famille, c'est un groupe de gens qui n'arrivent pas à communiquer, mais s'interrompent très bruyamment, s'exaspèrent mutuellement, comparent les diplômes de leurs enfants comme la décoration de leurs maisons, et se déchirent l'héritage de parents dont le cadavre est encore tiède.

La publicidad es el único trabajo en el que te pagan por hacer las cosas peor de lo que puedes hacerlas. Cuando presentas una idea genial y el anunciante desea estropearla, concéntrate en pensar en tu sueldo, y, en treinta segundos de cronómetro, endósale una mierda siguiendo su dictado y añádele unas palmeras en el story-board para salir a rodar el spot durante una semana en Miami o Ciudad del Cabo.

El hombre es un animal insatisfecho que se debate entre varias frustraciones.

L'homme est un animal insatisfait qui hésite entre plusieurs frustrations.

El amor es un combate perdido de antemano.

My earthly body has been a terrible disappointment to me.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

He wondered why he wasn't as in love with her as he was with...Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her)...he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow...but for some time now they'd shared too much frustration, boredom and fatigue.

She could recall almost nothing of them. She tried a thousand times, but for the greater part that section of her memory was as smooth and numb as scar tissue. Sometimes, just sometimes, she convinced herself that she could remember stray images or impressions, but she could not describe them properly or make sense of them.

It is a very terrible thing to be far smaller than one's rage.

After the engine had faded away she did not dismount, but sat for a few minutes with her face in her hands, almost as if she was praying. If it was a prayer she was muttering, however, it was one full of all the swear words that Not-Triss had ever heard, and quite a few she had not.

You couldn't plan a picnic without strangling yourself with the cloth.

I hate you!" Pen's would-be shout was muffled by breathlessness, and not-Triss realized that the younger girl was sobbing with exhaustion and rage. "I hate you! You stupid . . . Why did you have to happen? I never asked for a stupid . . . stupid . . . toothy . . . stupid . . . monster thing.

Well, if you are to help me with my work, you had better get used to stories without endings. True stories seldom have endings.

There were a lot of other words that Clent used after this, mostly to describe his opinion of Mosca's conduct. None of them were profane, but all of them were long and highly specific, and Mistress Leap might as well have been a goose for all the sense she could make of them.

You might as well hurl cherries at a mountain.

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Sipelgate jaoks on nende tegevus ülioluline, aga meie teame, et piisab vaid ühest jalahoobist, et nende väikeste ja pidevate pingutuste vili kaotsi läheks. Ja sipelgad ei mõista eales, miks nii läks.

I hate sand. It just fucking sticks to me and makes me uncomfortable.

We tiptoe around like we're the Frank family and the Gestapo is downstairs. The baby monitor is in our room, and the unspoken rule is that when the kids go down, so do we. So at seven P.M., I'm in bed waiting for the sandman to come. I can't watch TV, because the noise may wake up the kids; I can't listen to music with my iPod earbuds, because then I can't hear the monitor; and I can't have sex, because that could wake up Janice.

Insomnia, from the Greek word meaning "I can't fucking sleep!

Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment, even depression. Unless we learn to deal with disappointment, it will rob us of joy and poison our souls.