Quotes About Frustration

If it is bad to be all dressed up and no place to go, it is almost worse to be full of talk and to have no one to talk it to.

And then, just when I was beginning to think I might safely pop down in that direction and gather up the dropped threads, so to speak, time, instead of working the healing wheeze, went and pulled the most awful bone and put the lid on it.

Bertie, old man, said young Bingo earnestly, for the last two weeks I've been comforting the sick to such an extent that, if I had a brother and you brought him to me on a sick-bed at this moment, by Jove, old man, I'd heave a brick at him.

I left him thinking it over. If I were a bookie, I should feel justified in offering a hundred to eight against. You can't have approached him properly. I might have known you would muck it up, said young Bingo. Which, considering what I had been through for his sake, struck me as a good bit sharper than the serpent's tooth.

Nothing upsets a fowl more than having to wait for dinner.

All things come to him who waits, and among them is that unpleasant sensation of a cold hand upon the portion of the body which lies behind the third waistcoat button.

You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.

And when a woman says "Oh!" like that, it means all the bad words she'd love to say if she only knew them.

Tut!' I said. 'What did you say?' 'I said Tut!' 'Say it once again, and I'll biff you where you stand. I've enough to endure without being tutted at.

Le déracinement pour l'être humain est une frustration qui, d'une manière ou d'une autre, atrophie la clarté de son âme.

Por qué me pican las pulgas y los sargentos literarios?

Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.

She looked resentfully at Mr. Cann. It would, she was sure, have been difficult enough to persuade him, in spite of his protestations, to leave the house alive. Dead, he was going to be far more trouble.

Son of a bitch!" Hunter stared. "I fucking hate it when he does shit like that. That man has a supernatural relationship with gravity.

Fear is born of the thought of failure when one is attached to success. Anger is born of frustrated desire.

But those were the times when frustration with social ills boiled over, and escaping to another country was a fantasy everyone entertained at least once in their lives. Hopping on a plane to leave their old life behind was an immediate step up in status far more enviable than any upward career move.

What made his face burn was a sense of failure, the yearning for freedom that remained unfulfilled and the acute realisation that he didn't know anything.

Humans never invented anything that goes as deep as scientific investigation into understanding why the world is the way it is, nor have we found any other way of seeking knowledge that gets it so consistently right. Doing science is also difficult and frustrating, and in many ways goes against the grain of our spontaneous ways of thinking.

Didn't you find it all … rather unsatisfying?" "Yes, but I couldn't seem to see a way out. It was like being three different people, and they all wanted to go different ways." A slight smile. "The result was I went nowhere.

Nothing justifies this. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing

I realize words are never enough; they stutter and cleave to the roof of my mouth.

My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life.

single insincere phoneme, piss me off? Why can't I ignore her

Sweet little Jesus, I thought, as I weaved between the desks, these kids don't know crap.