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Quotes About Frustration

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Because you know that's not how you want it to end. You know I'd love to have you with me, and it will be that way, one day. But this isn't the way it ought to happen.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed
~ Margaret Atwood
Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?
~ Mary Balogh
I love the finished product, but I find working in the studio a chore - I use an old-fashioned setup, so the recording process can be frustrating.
~ Max Tundra
I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.
~ Murray Walker
Frustration is our announcement to ourselves that we need to move back into love in order to find our "center" once again.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
In no other game but love can you make all the right moves and still lose.
~ Neil Lowe
Going to work every day was like my hair was on fire and all I had to put it out was a hammer.
~ Bethany McLean
In the sympathetic words of the New York Times: "All admit to being deeply frustrated at times by the lack of privacy, the physical burden, the routine of family life, the confinement of it. However, none would give up her home and family if she had the choice to make again.
~ Betty Friedan
Trying to gather up my thoughts was as futile as trying to pick up spilled mercury. I had two big main depressing thoughts and each time I touched them they broke into many little morbid pieces.
~ Betty MacDonald
He was going to rip Plott apart, piece by piece.
~ Beverly Barton
Mother, what am I going to do?' Beezus demanded. 'It's checked out on my card and I'm responsible. They won't let me take any more books out of the library, and I won't have anything to read, and it will all be Ramona's fault. She's always spoiling my fun and it isn't fair!' Beezus didn't know what she would do without her library card. She couldn't get along without library books. She just couldn't, that was all.
~ Beverly Cleary
Nothing infuriated Ramona more than having a grown-up say, as if she could not hear, that she was worn out.
~ Beverly Cleary
Nobody had to tell Ramona about disappointment.
~ Beverly Cleary
She wanted a grown-up to be wrong for a change. She was tired of the rightness of grown-ups.
~ Beverly Cleary
I did not mind cleaning up my room, dusting, making the salad, but I resented her manner of asking me.
~ Beverly Cleary
My reading, secluded in my room with the door shut, annoyed Mother. She constantly talked to me through the door and accused me of being snooty. I was not snooty. I was confused and unhappy, and wanted time to think without Mother telling me what to think.
~ Beverly Cleary
Nobody understood. She wanted to behave herself. Except when banging her heels on the bedroom wall, she had always wanted to behave herself. Why couldn't people understand how she felt?
~ Beverly Cleary
Ramona wished she could run, run, run out of that classroom as she had the day before and never come back.
~ Beverly Cleary
Mother, what am I going to do? Beezus demanded. It's checked out on my card and I'm responsible. they won't let me take any more books out of the library, and I won't have anything to read, and it will all be Ramona's fault. She's always spoiling my fun and it isn't fair! Beezus didn't know what she would do without her library card. She couldn't get along without library books. She just couldn't, that was all.
~ Beverly Cleary
That's right," grumped Mr. Schultz, half-pretending.
~ Beverly Cleary
sort of wail that leads to fighting with fangs and claws.
~ Beverly Cleary