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Quotes About Frustration

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.
~ Charles Dickens
Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
~ Charles Dickens
My life is one demd horrid grind.
~ Charles Dickens
Oh, but reasoning is so much worse than scolding!... I didn't marry to be reasoned with. If you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as I am, you ought to have told me so, you cruel boy!
~ Charles Dickens
John Jarndyce] rubbed his head so constantly that not a single hair upon it ever rested in its right place
~ Charles Dickens
Ten minutes, good, past eleven." "My blood!" ejaculated the vexed coachman, "and not atop of Shooter's yet! Tst! Yah! Get on with you!" The emphatic horse, cut short by the whip in a most decided negative, made a decided scramble for it, and the three other horses followed
~ Charles Dickens
He takes out his anger by having his carriage speed through the streets, scattering the commoners in the way.
~ Charles Dickens
chafed the hands that held his arm. "There, there, there! See
~ Charles Dickens
May the Devil carry away these idiots!
~ Charles Dickens
Jarndyce mot Jarndyce maler videre. Dette fugleskremselet av en rettssak er med tiden blitt så innfløkt at det ikke er en levende sjel som vet hva den går ut på.
~ Charles Dickens
Maldito seas! A fe que merece simpatía el hombre que me demuestra lo que yo podría haber sido y no soy.
~ Charles Dickens
but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was.
~ Charles Dickens
As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant.
~ Charles Dickens
Ama ne yaz?k ki elimden gelenler içimden gelenlerin gerisinde kal?rd?.
~ Charles Dickens
She has worn herself away by constant sharpening. She is all edge.
~ Charles Dickens
I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse…I am like one who died young. All my life might have been.
~ Charles Dickens
What the Devil, I say again!" exclaimed the gaoler,
~ Charles Dickens
He comes here at the peril of his life, for the realization of his fixed idea. In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him. Do you see nothing that he might do, under the disappointment?
~ Charles Dickens
Sometimes, we strike into the skirting mud, to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts and sloughs there. The agony of our impatience is then so great, that in our wild alarm and hurry we are for getting out and running—hiding—doing anything but stopping.
~ Charles Dickens
It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished.
~ Charles Dickens
He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.
~ Charles Dickens
Life can get fucked up fast when you try to be a pleaser. Because people won't ever be pleased, not even if you drop them ass-first into paradise. They like bitching too much.
~ Charles Frazier
First world problems: When the hot fudge on your sundae turns cold.
~ Internet meme, c. 2017
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
~ Don Herold, So Human, 1924