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Quotes About Frustration

I try, but they always see through me. The passages will never lead anywhere, the doors will always be shut.
~ Jean Rhys
I prayed, but the words fell to the ground meaning nothing.
~ Jean Rhys
When man don't love you, more you try, more he hate you, man like that. If you love them they treat you bad, if you don't love them they after you night and day bothering your soul case out.
~ Jean Rhys
Women are just planets that attract the wrong species.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I tried to build an igloo out of orange peel but it kept falling down and even when it stood up I didn't have an eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about 'How Eskimo Got Eaten', which made me even more miserable. It's always the same with diversions; you get involved
~ Jeanette Winterson
It is going dark. There are bombs exploding. Alice is losing patience. She throws down the map and shouts at Gertrude: 'THIS IS THE WRONG ROAD.' Gertrude drives on. She says, 'Right or wrong, this is the road and we are on it.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I tried to build an igloo out of the orange peel but it kept falling down and even when it stood up I didn't have an eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about 'How Eskimo Got Eaten', which made me even more miserable. It's always the same with diversions; you get involved.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Maybe. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more. Anger is.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Crystal didn't like delays. She was a fast-moving, efficient person, and when her way was blocked, she became very tense and spoke with her lips in two hard lines.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
The thought made him suddenly furious. He sat up, grabbed a shoe heel out of the bucket at his feet, and hurled it with all his might. It arrived at the front door just as the door opened. Doon heard a hard thwack and a loud "Ouch!" at the same moment. Then he saw the long, lean, tired-looking face of his father in the doorway.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
I'm not upset because I'll miss you," Mom said. "I'm upset because you get to go to New York and I'm stuck here. It's not fair.
~ Jeannette Walls
Ironing was a particularly galling waste of time. You'd spend twenty minutes pressing one shirt front and back, spraying starch and getting the creases sharp, but once the man of the house put it on, it would wrinkle as soon as he bent an elbow; plus, you couldn't even see whether the danged shirt was ironed or not under his suit coat.
~ Jeannette Walls
What a torment it is not to be rich! It gets one into such abject situations.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Il y a quelque chose de coincé dans le mécanisme
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.
~ Oliver Sacks
I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.
~ Steny Hoyer
I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.
~ Terence Stamp
Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.
~ Tom Araya
Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Every day when I get home from work, I feel so frustrated, my boss is a jerk.
~ Todd Rundgren
The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.
~ Bob Dylan
You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
~ Bram Cohen
There are two ways to argue with a woman, and neither of them work.
~ Unknown
"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.
~ Charlie Brooker