Quotes About Frustration

When expectations exceed reality, frustration is the result.

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there?

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

My heart is aching for the people of Nice, Italy. I am so sad that I have no words to express my frustration.

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

Inner turbulence leads to anger.

precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already.

I'm bad at math because I can't find the basic statement in it.

When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.

WERE TRANSPARENCY EXISTS NOT!, THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR FRUSTRATION AND DISASTER THEREIN

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.