Quotes About Frustration

What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.

This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put!

Life seemed to be teaching him that the satisfaction of most appetites carried in them the seeds of frustration, that it was the common delusion of all men to imagine otherwise.

If what I feel for you is dislike -- for coming between me and my work sometime every day in the last fifteen months --if that's dislike...If being unable to forget your voice, or the way you turn your neck, or the lights in your hair -- if that's dislike...If wanting to hear that you're married and dreading to hear that you're married...If resenting the condescension that pretends you're not out of my reach...Perhaps you can identify these symptoms for me.

He said in exasperation, "Goddamn it, you should know I'm not used to dealing with women! You search the earth to find some special secret feminine grievance to gnaw over for months on end and then produce it coolly on the mat to explain all the irrational hedging and dodging of an entire winter—

si odiano sempre i testimoni della propria umiliazione e della propria inutilità. [...]

he was deeply annoyed at having to leave the fair before he was drunk, a thing that had never happened to him since he was ten.

I have achieved a great deal to achieve nothing in the end.

Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat!

Golf Like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

PoszedÅ'em do modnego sklepu Ostende i kupiÅ'em parÄ™ bucików ?óÅ'tych, które okazaÅ'y siÄ™ za ciasne. WróciÅ'em wiÄ™c do sklepu i wymieniÅ'em tÄ™ parÄ™ na innÄ…, tego samego fasonu i numeru i w ogóle identycznÄ… pod ka?dym wzglÄ™dem, która okazaÅ'a siÄ™ równie ciasna. Bywa, i? sobÄ… zdumiewam siebie.

And the ridiculous impotence of words in the face of life!

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

For how would he explain to her that the sluggish bilgewater which twice, when he called the paper, lapped the receiver at the other end seemed to evoke the same squelch as her piano-key armpits.

What annoys me most is that these stupid Frenchmen think I am still just seven years old - because that was my age when they first saw me - (...) they treat me here like a beginner - except the musicians; they know better.

he must have thought: this is a young fellow and a stupid German besides - that's just how all French speak of the Germans - he will be guite content with this - but the stupid German was not content (...).

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

We are adrift alone in the cosmos wreaking monstrous violence on one another out of frustration and pain.

I don't know what the hell I was thinking; I hated nature, and more than nature I hated being a car owner.

His face was knotted with rage. He felt like fainting but couldn't remember the proper way to fall.

Qué difícil vivir enamorado y no dejar de ser un pinche caliente.

Desde cuándo los sentimientos meramente irracionales precisan de razones para joderle a uno la existencia?