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Quotes About Frustration

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
~ Terry Pratchett
He sagged to his knees. He ached all over. It wasn't just that his brain was writing cheques that his body couldn't cash. It had gone beyond that. Now his feet were borrowing money that his legs hadn't got, and his back muscles were looking for loose change under the sofa cushions.
~ Terry Pratchett
Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day.
~ Terry Pratchett
Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!
~ Terry Pratchett
Sometimes, Tiffany thought, I am so fed up with being young.
~ Terry Pratchett
Anything could make Wentworth sticky. Washed and dried and left in the middle of a clean floor for five minutes, Wentworth would be sticky. It didn't seem to come from anywhere. He just got sticky.
~ Terry Pratchett
There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong.
~ Terry Pratchett
OH. DRAMA. Oh, hell.
~ Terry Pratchett
Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.
~ Terry Pratchett
A bully, thought Susan. A very small, weak, very dull bully, who doesn't manage any real bullying because there's hardly anyone smaller and weaker than him, so he just makes everyone's lives just that little bit more difficult…
~ Terry Pratchett
Anger helped Vimes up the last leg of the climb. Anger at himself and whoever it was who had punctured his holiday. But it was worrying: he had wanted something to happen and now it had. Somebody was dead. Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.
~ Terry Pratchett
squernt" ("the feeling upon finding that the previous occupant of the privy has used all the paper")
~ Terry Pratchett
She sighed again. She was familiar with the syndrome. They said they wanted a soulmate and helpmeet but sooner or later the list would include a skin like silk and a chest fit for a herd of cows.
~ Terry Pratchett
A good shouting at somebody always makes you feel better and in control, especially if you aren't.
~ Terry Pratchett
You know it's going to be Mary the Maid, or someone like her, and there's going to be two men and she will end up with the nice one, and there has to be misunderstandings, and they never do anything more than kiss and it's absolutely guaranteed that, for example, an exciting civil war or an invasion by trolls or even a scene with any cooking in it is not going to happen. The best you can expect is a thunderstorm.
~ Terry Pratchett
There was a definite feel about Adora Belle Dearheart that a lid was only barely holding down an entire womanful of anger.
~ Terry Pratchett
Really cool people?" said Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping.
~ Terry Pratchett
In other words, it's the familiar hot sinking feeling experienced by everyone who has let the waves of their own anger throw them far up on the beach of retribution, leaving them, in the poetic language of the everyday, up shit creek.
~ Terry Pratchett
He ached all over. It wasn't just that his brain was writing checks that his body couldn't cash. It had gone beyond that. Now his feet were borrowing money that his legs hadn't got, and his back muscles were looking for loose change under the sofa cushions.
~ Terry Pratchett
5.Buggre Alle this for a Larke I amme sick to mye Hart of typefetinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges now more that a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half and oz of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Suneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the lielong dale inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe *AE@;I*
~ Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
I wanted Bird Dog to play that game like I wanted a sack of hammers across the jaw.
~ Terry Ryan
It's yet another thing that irritates me this morning, on top of the fact that I'm hungry. I didn't sleep well, and now the mosquitos have found me. Mosquitos always find me. Whenever I step outside , it's as if they can hear their dinner bell ring, and already I am slapping at my neck and face.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Why do we always treat kids like the enemy?" "Because they so often behave like an alien species?
~ Tess Gerritsen
Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.
~ Tess Gerritsen