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Quotes About Frustration

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?
~ Sloane Crosley
If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.
~ Smiley Blanton
It means a person, any person, who has completely awakened from ignorance and opened to his or her vast potential of wisdom. A buddha is one who has brought a final end to suffering and frustration, and discovered a lasting and deathless happiness and peace.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
the practice of mindfulness defuses our negativity, aggression, pain, suffering, and frustration
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
I can't wring blood from a stone.
~ Soheir Khashoggi
A handsome young man appears at one side of the stage. A beautiful young woman appears on the other side. The audience immediately wants them to get together. It is the author's job to keep them apart as long as possible.
~ Sol Stein
Anger is like a piece of shredded wheat stuck in your dentures. If you leave it there, you'll get a blister and have to eat jello for a week.
~ Sophia
The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.
~ Sophia Bush
She was irritated, briefly, by the thought that she might be becoming more mature. Why should she become a better person when no one else did?
~ Sophie Hannah
Look at us. One bleeding body, one corpse, and a husk who's been half dead for years. No one who took an objective look at this room could think it was anything but too late, Ruth. For all of us.
~ Sophie Hannah
I'm low-level angry most of the time, never really know why,' Simon told him. 'You got the brunt of it. This time.
~ Sophie Hannah
I should like to toss Eustace on a fire! What a pity such actions are against the law. All I can say is that whoever made that particular law must never have met Eustace.
~ Sophie Hannah
didn't belong to her. She said her car was missing a mirror and the trains were knackered, so she'd
~ Sophie Hannah
sometimes, the more you want something, the more the opposite tends to happen.
~ Sophie Hayes
We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.
~ Sophie Kinsella
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
~ Sophocles
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
~ Sophocles
In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!
~ Spider Robinson
The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.
~ Spider Robinson
Think about a world which never irritated you. You'd be stuck with it forever.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
In joy there is neither desire nor ambition. Ambition promises joy somewhere in the future. It creates a mirage of joy and leaves frustration in your hands.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If nothing else, Emily gets here next week, so that will be good." "That will be great. Except she's bringing the hellbeast with her." My spring reunion with Schatzi was much as I would have expected. She bit me twice, shat in my suitcase, and ate one of my shoes. "Well, you could always make yeast rolls...
~ Stacey Ballis
Going to the gym...all those people who always told me that you get addicted to it, that endorphins kick in, that eventually you crave it and look forward to it are sick lying ****s and I want to choke them with a protein bar and pummel them about the head with a bottle of SmartWater.
~ Stacey Ballis
I sit here locked inside my head Remembering everything you've said The silence get's us no where Get's us no where way too fast
~ Staind