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Quotes About Frustration

Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.
~ Bruno Bettelheim
I have some anger issues.
~ Bryan Cranston
Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called, 'We hate you, please die.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
Fuck you fucks and the fucks you fucked in on!
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
Just when it felt like you were getting ahead of the game a little, some damn crisis or other would come along to bring you right back to square one.
~ Bryan Smith
I suck, she thought. I have achieved levels of suckitude unrivaled by anyone ever in the entire history of suck.
~ Bryan Smith
A one-way ticket to Palookaville.
~ Budd Schulberg
It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.
~ bukowski charles ii
For tho' we know what we ought to be; & what it would be very sweet & beautiful to be; yet we can't be it. That is most sad, too. Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last . . .
~ Herman Melville
may not be able
~ Herman Melville
No wonder, taking the whole fleet of whalemen in a body, that out of fifty fair chances for a dart, not five are successful; no wonder that so many hapless harpooneers are madly cursed and disrated; no wonder that some of them actually burst their blood-vessels in the boat;
~ Herman Melville
No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you will never pound into me what you were just now saying.
~ Herman Melville
Why, thou monkey, we've been cruising now hard upon three years and thou hast not raised a whale yet. Whales are scarce as hen's teeth when thou art up there.
~ Herman Melville
Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy!
~ Herman Melville
Oaths, blasphemies, and one recurring four-letter word filled the air like fog.
~ Herman Wouk
shot at. All I did at Wotje was lose control
~ Herman Wouk
Duce, damn your whipped-cream soul, do you know anything that can clear up this crazy mess?
~ Herman Wouk
The most painful anguish that mortals suffer is to understand a great deal but to have no power at all.
~ Herodotus
Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!
~ Homer
Hyrtacides pummeled his thighs and groaned and bit his lip and said: O Father Zeus, you, even you, turn out to be a liar. [bk.12]
~ Homer
The study of physics is also an adventure. You will find it challenging, some?times frustrating, occasionally painful, and often richly rewarding.
~ Hugh D. Young
You stupid piece of warm bacon.
~ Hugh Lofting