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Quotes About Frustration

That's what I keep trying to tell everyone! Finally, somebody gets it! I think Mom is going to choke Kendra to death.
~ Brandon Mull
Seth, I'm about to lose it. Enough about going after the artifact. It's crazy. Can't you tell when an idea is doomed? Are you programmed to self-destruct?
~ Brandon Mull
Excruciating agony makes me cranky.
~ Brandon Mull
I ain't grouchy," Teft snapped. "I just have a low threshold for stupidity.
~ Brandon Sanderson
What do you know?" "Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes." "What do you want, then?" "What I can't have." Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. "Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.
~ Brandon Sanderson
We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.
~ Brandon Sanderson
One of the great tragedies of life is knowing how many people in the world are made to soar, paint, sing, or steer—except they never get the chance to find out.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Not having ice cream," she proclaimed, "is the culmination of all disasters!
~ Brandon Sanderson
His entire life had been a futile effort to stop a storm by yelling at it. The storm didn't care.
~ Brandon Sanderson
But since then you've acted like I was a gorilla at your buffet." "A...what?" "Gorilla at your buffet. You know... eating all your food? Making you annoyed? That kind of thing?
~ Brandon Sanderson
I ain't grouchy," Teft snapped. "I just have a low threshold for stupidity.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Stupid water, ruining my enjoyment of swimming.
~ Brandon Sanderson
If there was one thing in particular that he had learned by growing up in his father's house it was this: how to annoy people.
~ Brandon Sanderson
For me, if I have writer's block it means I know that what I am writing is not working quite right and I need to go back and fix what is not right. And once I do that I can write onward. Sometimes writer's block is just I'm in a funk that day and my writing just isn't working. In that case I write anyway and then throw it away. You can always write. Writer's block is 'I can't write because what I'm writing is crap.
~ Brandon Sanderson
It's horribly unfair you managed that on your first try," Kaladin noted. "It took me forever.
~ Brandon Sanderson
What did you do the moment you found out?" Mraize said. "Cursed your name.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I thought I'd gotten over feeling like I need to strangle members of this team. Turns out my desire to murder Cody in a violent, dehumanizing fashion had nothing to do with the darkness. It was completely natural.
~ Brandon Sanderson
So much about life was disappointment. He often wondered how humankind endured so long, and if the few moments when things went right really made up for all the rest.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Instead, he gripped her forearm. "Why, Jasnah? Why have you always denied me?" "Other than the fact that you are a detestable buffoon who achieves only the lowest level of mediocrity, as it is the best your limited mind can imagine? I can't possibly think of a reason.
~ Brandon Sanderson
It would be like finding out that you'd drawn lots for dessert at the Factory and been only one number off, only it didn't matter because Pete already snuck in to steal the dessert, so nobody was going to get any anyway - not even Pete, because it turns out there had never been any dessert to begin with.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I can't let you make changes until I authenticate, sir," the man said in the neutral, patient voice of one accustomed to talking on the phone all day to people who deserved to be strangled.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Qué clase de cosas puedes romper? -De todo tipo. Puertas, dispositivos electrónicos, mesas... Una vez rompí un pollo. -¿Un pollo? -Sí, estaba de excursión. Me... frustré y cogí un pollo. Cuando lo solté, se le cayeron de golpe todas las plumas y, a partir de entonces, se negó a comer otra cosa que no fuera comida para gatos.
~ Brandon Sanderson