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Quotes About Frustration

I've been sort of crabby lately. It's that time of the month again–the rent's due.
~ Margaret Smith
Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho.
~ Margaret Way
I swear, Papa, I'd give my virtue if it would get my novels published,' she exclaimed in vexation. 'I'm certain we've tried everything else.
~ Unknown
The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.
~ Marge Piercy
I hate when I'm supposed to be having fun and Race singles me out for special chores and duties.
~ Margo Jefferson
Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.
~ Marguerite Duras
Can we cut the Zen crap for a moment?" I ask. "I'm trying to beat this bag to a pulp.
~ Mari Mancusi
I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy.
~ Unknown
Each of them, living, was intolerable to the other, and in fury, they fell to it.
~ Unknown
Soy David, ya me conoces –dijo, y se adelantó. –¡No, no te conozco! –David Stenfäldt, del pueblo... –¡Cierra la boca! –lo interrumpió Natte–. No puedo oír si hay alguien más por ahí. David no tenía ganas de continuar y dio un paso adelante.
~ Unknown
Jonas var dypt skuffet over de to andre. Han hadde måttet bøye seg for «overmakten» som han uttrykte det.
~ Unknown
Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
~ Marian Anderson
I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.
~ Marian McPartland
I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
~ Marianne Moore
People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.
~ Marilyn Manson
You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.
~ Marilyn Manson
Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process
~ Unknown
exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.
~ Alissa Nutting
I gave up drinking coffee for you. I swapped pizza for produce, and this is what I get in return?
~ Unknown
When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… "Why did I ever wake up!" he cried.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.
~ Rex Stout
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
~ Robert M. Pirsig