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Quotes About Frustration

Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.
~ Joseph Conrad
I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.
~ Keith Fullerton Whitman
When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.
~ Ken Green
I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.
~ Kid Rock
He sighed heavily. "Girls are mean. At least faeries simply kill you if they don't want you around." He put a hand on the wall, leaning against it and tapping his foot impatiently.
~ Kiersten White
There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.
~ Kim Basinger
I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don't want to go on.
~ Lawrence Block
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.
~ Lori Foster
I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
~ Louis C. K.
It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.
~ Luke Temple
It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.
~ Marat Safin
I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them.
~ Marc Guggenheim
Oh, come on, Arthur." "I don't want to hear it, Andy." "Jesus Christ" "He doesn't want to hear it, either.
~ Markus Zusak
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
~ Maurice Sendak
It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.
~ Maya Forbes
I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!
~ Melina Marchetta
That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.
~ Melina Marchetta
My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.
~ Michael Sheen
I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
~ Nadine Gordimer
If you want something done right, just forget it.
~ Neil Peart
A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.
~ Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre