Quotes About Frustration

My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.

Father is a school manqué ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.

It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.

In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.

Bond found this irksome. He disliked being cosseted. It gave him claustrophobia.

W]ieder stieg ein unbestimmtes Gefühl von Frustration und Sehnsucht in mir auf bei dem Gedanken, dass ich das falsche Leben führte.

No one can predict which of life's vexations insomnia will favour.

There's nothing in his own life that contains this inventiveness, this style of being free. The music speaks to unexpressed longing or frustration, a sense that he's denied himself an open road, the life of the heart celebrated in the songs.

Hiába csillogott oly tetszetÅ'sen az értelem, nem oldott meg semmit.

Sólo los niños, de hecho, piensan que un deseo y su cumplimiento es todo uno: quizás es lo que da a los tiranos ese aire infantil. Alargan la mano hacia lo que no poseen. Cuando topan con la frustración, la rabieta homicida nunca está muy lejos.

When he saw his wife smashing plates right and left, he shouted, "What! Are you looking for a husband

Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We looked at him. "Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him? Saiman stared at me, speechless. I had to give it to Rene—she didn't laugh. But she really wanted to.

We were screwed and he didn't even kiss us first.

Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind . . . I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.

I'm counting to ten in my head. Is it helping? No. It doesn't help me with you either. I used to life weights to alleviate frustration, but someone blowtorched my weight bench. How did you do it, by the way? I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.

I turned and bumped my head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface.

Very well. He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation now. Really, Your Majesty? So good of you to condescend. I'll try to use small words and go slow. You're wasting my time. I know Jim betrayed me and you're covering for him. This is your chance to dazzle me wih your brillance or baffle me with your bullshit. You won't get another. When I get out, I won't be in the mood to listen.

Sh!t. F_ck sh!t.'.... 'Sh!t f_ck would have also been accepted.

Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.

I have had it up to here with my wedding, I said. The other day Andrea tried to explain to me that apparently I am supposed to have a new thing, an old thing, a blue thing, and something stolen. Borrowed, Kate, Barabas murmured. Who the hell even makes up those rules?

I'd signed six things and my stack wasn't getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.

I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.

If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody. Of course, Raphael might like that...

I'm going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly.