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Quotes About Frustration

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
~ Claude Monet
Usually, when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
~ Faith Ford
Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.
~ Mark Twain
They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".
~ Miles Davis
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
~ Seth Godin
Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.
~ Steve Jordan
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
~ Harrison Ford
I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.
~ Kanye West
It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Powerless rage can work miracles.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
~ Stanley Kubrick
I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.
~ Sylvia Plath
It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.
~ Tom Petty
There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.
~ Bellamy Young
It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.
~ Bill Murray
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.
~ Douglas Adams
Sometimes things don't work like they should.
~ Dwight Howard
All work and no pay makes a housewife.
~ Evan Esar
I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.
~ Garrison Keillor
Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.
~ Harry Reid
dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.
~ Jasmine Cresswell
Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.
~ Robert Rodriguez