Quotes About Frustration

She had spent her entire youth waiting and hoping for things that never happened. Now she was thirty.

Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations.

I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

She's always late, except when we're late, and then she gives us unmitigated shit.

One with a cubicle and a desk that snags your panty hose and endless memos about the right way to dispose of recyclables. And lots and lots of petty intrigue and small-minded politics, all intended to distract you from the fact that you're getting two percent raises from a company that's returning twenty percent to its stockholders. That's a real grown-up's job.

Sometimes it's not that you don't want help. It's that you can't bear to be offered help that just keeps turning out not to be enough after all.

While Sean was politically seasoned enough to put the morning's snafus behind him, and not worry overmuch that the apathetic bunch he'd just talked to represented America's future voters, it was the high school principal's long-winded enthusiasm, telling Sean how much of an inspiration he was for these kids, that truly set Sean's teeth on edge. And made him even later for the final meeting of the day, the coral reef advisory panel.

No!" She pries the frozen square of manure from the dog's teeth and flings it away. Then she unzips her jacket and sighs one of those frustrated sighs that is supposed to help get patience back and which he hears from his wife all the time now. "Remember, Dad,

Trying to get a handle on what he thought, what he felt, what he thought about what he felt and vice versa, was like trying to open a locked door by ramming it with his head.

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.

Lots of people thought he was making jokes when he wasn't and didn't realize he was making jokes when he was. It was irritating.

She was tired of playing the dutiful assistant to a great man.

It's terrible to be born to do something you will never be permitted to do. Especially while you watch yourself go through life doing something else.

Problems don't always get fixed. Lots of the time things are boring or dumb for no good reason. Or even terrible. And you can't do anything about it. That's life.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

a) he's late. b) he's acting like an asshole and blowing me off. c)he's gotten into a horrible car crash that's left dead. The most likely answer is A. (We went to prom together, and the limo had to wait in his driveway for half an hour. At the end of the night, we got charged for an extra hour. He- read: his parents- paid for it, but still.)

I traded being heartbroken over one guys for being completely heartbroken over another. And I didn't even get to have any fun in between. No relationship, no sex, not even a good makeout session.

The first day of school is bullshit

The firs day of high school is bullshit anyways. It's supposed to be about new beginnings, but really all it does is wreck your life. And set you up for failure. And make you realize everything is completely and totally fucked.

One large soy latte." [...] "You mean a Venti," [...] "What?" I ask "A Venti," he says. " that's what we call larger here. You know that Hannah." "Well, whatever," I say, my bad mood deepening. "Whatever you call them, that's what I want." They should just call them larger. How stupid.

I look around for someplace to sit, but of course there's nowhere. It's the bathroom in the math wing, not the bathroom in Blair Waldorf's house.

Ty swung around. He was obviously fed up with Ben's negative attitude.

Umm, let me see. Hmmm, what to say, what to say? Oh, I know. Fuck you.

There had been no one thing at which to point blame. The break-up was the accumulation of months of dissatisfaction. But if there was one thing that had tipped her over the edge, it was the toothpaste.