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Quotes About Frustration

He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come. He couldn't think what else to do. He
~ Lev Grossman
Shit was getting geological, yo.
~ Lev Grossman
For a punk Penny could be an unbelievable drag.
~ Lev Grossman
All of it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy
~ Lev Grossman
had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come. He couldn't think what else to do. He
~ Lev Grossman
Oh, that was a droll little affair,' said Peters. 'Forget about it. You know what women are like? They're like those long, skinny blocks you get in Tetris, the ones made out of four blocks straight in a row. First when you need them you can't get any, then when you don't need them anymore they're fucking everywhere and you don't know what to do with them.
~ Lev Grossman
Chop chop. I'm literally losing the will to live." —Eliot
~ Lev Grossman
It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though—and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger—he was angry only because his position was so weak.
~ Lev Grossman
he'd learned the secret of a richer, more powerful adult rage. "It isn't how it was! It never will be again! They changed the rules on us, so as far as I'm concerned all bets are off." He cinched his belt tight. "If They apologized, if They showed
~ Lev Grossman
There is really no end to life's little humiliations,
~ Lev Grossman
He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.
~ Lev Grossman
He wasn't happy. Why not? He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come.
~ Lev Grossman
Oh well, another dream dies.
~ Lev Grossman
Well, okay, then know this." Janet put her hands on her hips. She had struck an unexpected vein of bitterness in herself, and it was running away with her. "We human beings are unhappy all the time. We hate ourselves and we hate each other and sometimes we wish You or Whoever had never created us or this shit-ass world or any other shit-ass world. Do You realize that? So next time You might think about not doing such a half-assed job.
~ Lev Grossman
suit, Quentin knew he wasn't happy. Why not? He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come. He couldn't think what else to do.
~ Lev Grossman
Now he had answers, but they weren't doing what answers were supposed to do: they weren't making things simpler or easier. They weren't helping.
~ Lev Grossman
And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.
~ Lewis Black
Lactose intolerant milk?! KISS, MY, DICK!
~ Lewis Black
But answer came there none—And this was scarcely odd, becauseThey'd eaten every one.
~ Lewis Carroll
Those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
~ Lewis Carroll
The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless.
~ Lewis Niles Black
Why would I be excited that a Democrat won? Seriously, over the past eight years the Democrats didn't do SHIT! Basically, the last eight years, I feel, the Republicans stood around farting; and the Democrats went "Ooh, let me smell it."
~ Lewis Niles Black
FEMA I always thought was a bone here in your ass.
~ Lewis Niles Black
I drive relatively fast - within the remits of the law, obviously - but I struggle with people who do stupid things on the road. I have a massive urge to shout expletives at them.
~ Greg Rutherford