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Quotes About Frustration

I am nothing to you, nothing, and you bring me fever but no delight.
~ James Baldwin
And he suddenly takes the bag of tomatoes and smashes them against the nearest wall. Thank God the wall is blank, thank God it is now beginning to be dark. Thank God tomatoes spatter but do not ring.
~ James Baldwin
On the morning of the evening that we met I had been turned out of my room. I did not owe an awful lot of money, only around six thousand francs, but Parisian hotel-keepers have a way of smelling poverty and then they do what anybody does who is aware of a bad smell; they throw whatever stinks outside.
~ James Baldwin
Goddammit to hell, I'm sick of it. Can't I get a place to sleep without dragging it through the courts? I'm goddamn tired of battling every Tom, Dick, and Harry for what everyone else takes for granted. I'm tired!
~ James Baldwin
It's all shit," he had muttered in English, and felt better.
~ James Clavell
God curse me and my lack of wits! Why don't I know what to do easily?
~ James Clavell
I didn't know what was going on, didn't understand a bit of it, didn't like any of it. Maybe that's why the first thing I packed was my guns. If your brain won't work, wave a gun around. Sometimes that helps.
~ James Crumley
All dressed up and no one to kill.
~ James Ellroy
I got in the car and headed home, wondering if I would ever tell Kay that I didn't have a woman because sex tasted like blood and resin and suture scrub to me.
~ James Ellroy
They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.
~ James Frey
Because I'll never be any better. I'll never be any more normal and I'll never make the pain go away. Never ever ever.
~ James Frey
He was going to kill Russell's dream of a perfect logical system.
~ James Gleick
The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
~ Brene Brown
I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there's things that delight me, it's just the uncertainty of it all.
~ Graeme Souness
'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitterness, frustration, unchanging society, an individual lost, social awkwardness... The book satirises archetypes from across Filipino society, and I felt that the least I could do was offer myself up, too.
~ Miguel Syjuco
If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.
~ Jack Lemmon
My 30s were a nightmare because I was so uncomfortable. If I could have unzipped myself and stepped out of my body, I would have done.
~ Toyah Willcox
The Japanese government has accepted the notion that Japan is the loser, and it appears to be going to accept unconditional surrender. Such a position frustrates the officers and soldiers of the imperial armed forces.
~ Hideki Tojo
My biggest frustration with the Heisman is it's become the MVP of the national champion, or a team going to the National Championship game. That's what it's turned into. If you're not undefeated, you're out of the running.
~ Doug Flutie
You cannot underestimate the body blow for a snooker player of having your cue broken. After all, it's an extension to your arm.
~ Stephen Hendry
I'm tired of being underrated. I'm tired of being overlooked.
~ Mike Conley Jr.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
~ Eminem
The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.
~ Charles Bronson