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Quotes About Frustration

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.
~ Ilona Andrews
Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?" She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance. Instead, he kissed her.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
Sometimes when you're sad, it's easier to be angry.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
Zafar's lot never write what they really feel which is FUCK YOU WICKED CUNTS I HOPE YOU DIE PAINFULLY FOR THE HORRIBLE THINGS YOU DID TO US AND THE ARROGANT FUCKING CRUELTY YOU'VE DISPLAYED EVER SINCE. They write high-sounding shit like JUSTICE FOR KHAUFPUR and KAMPANI MEET YOUR LIABILITIES
~ Unknown
I stupidly suggested that we do A Dream Play. There were forty-two parts... It was hell. I thought: 'How can I explain to these forty-two people what Strindberg means by "Poor souls, I feel sorry for us."' It doesn't exist in German.
~ Ingmar Bergman
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
~ Unknown
Damn it all! What rhymes with rhythm?
~ Ira Gershwin
I found lines that mirrored an ache and longing I had so often felt when the beauty around my woods cathedral was too intense, when the need to grasp and keep loveliness left me with a sense of desolate frustration.
~ Irene Hunt
All those years, all the frustration, just sapped the life out of him. No one is going to do that to me.
~ Iris Johansen
Because what a man like him really needs is a God whom he can blame and whom he can get mad at when things go wrong. This way he's got nobody who can be the target of his anger and hatred and that's why he blames his wife, but she minds - and the one who is called God doesn't mind.
~ Unknown
you have to hate anyone who can dismiss you, even if they're good to you, because you work for them and not with them.
~ Unknown
You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt.
~ Irvine Welsh
take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace
~ Irvine Welsh
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
~ Isaac Asimov
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
~ Isaac Marion
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
~ Isaac Rosenberg
One idea is wasted, one intuitive is frustrated, and one sensing executive has to deal with a resentful subordinate.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
nh?ng có lúc ngòi bút ch? rào r?o b?i m?c, không l?n ch?y b?ng m?t gi?t ??i, và cu?c ??i thì toàn b? ?n goài kia, bên ngoài ô c?a s?, bên ngoài b?n, và b?n c?m th?y mình s? không bao gi? còn có th? n??ng náu n?i trang gi?y b?n ?ang vi?t
~ Italo Calvino
Quello che vorresti é l'aprirsi d'uno spazio e d'un tempo astratti ed assoluti in cui muoverti seguendo una traiettoria esatta e tesa; ma quando ti sembra di riuscirci t'accorgi d'esser fermo, bloccato, costretto a ripetere tutto da capo.
~ Italo Calvino
I sit down at the desk, but no story I invent corresponds to what I would like to convey.
~ Italo Calvino
Ci si mette a scrivere di lena, ma c'è un'ora in cui la penna non gratta che polveroso inchiostro, e non vi scorre più una goccia di vita, e la vita è tutta fuori, fuori dalla finestra, fuori di te, e ti sembra che mai più potrai rifugiarti nella pagina che scrivi, aprire un altro mondo, fare un salto.[...] scrivendo non mi sono cambiata in bene, ho solo consumato un po' d'ansiosa incosciente giovinezza.
~ Italo Calvino