Quotes About Frustration

It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing.

Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

I can't swim farther than from here to the far side of a whiskey glass.

I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!

I pushed away my dessert, suddenly no longer hungry. Resentment had a way of filling up your stomach.

the wait is just as bad because you can't do anything else in Jamaica but wait for something to happen to you.

What really boils me blood is that it's not that Daddy didn't have money, but he never could think of a single good reason to spend it.

But sometime, a negro get tired of white man stomping so he grab the foot, twist and break it. Sometime a negro say, Enough done be enough now.

Maybe I should have grabbed my own cock skin and smashed it off with a rock.

He felt sorry for me. He wanted a plain country woman and that's what he married, and then he held it against me the rest of my life like I was supposed to change and surprise him somehow.

Accepting is most valuable when we are powerless to make a difference. Yet our ineffectuality is precisely the condition we are most loath to accept. It triggers our finest moments of counterproductive behavior.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

If a person is argued into submission or politically subdued in one area but the underlying emotional need isn't met, he'll simply create another headache somewhere else.

You know, talking to you is as satisfying as smashing my fingers with a hammer.

The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

How the hell am I supposed to keep track of everyone around here when no one listens to a thing I say?

Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved...stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.

She tried, leaning back and closing her eyes, to put in order what she had seen, heard, and what she had known before. She wanted to place her knowledge in paragraphs ( a good opening sentence? she thought), so that it would be easy to handle when she came to write it. But it did not fit in paragraphs and she could not see it, plain and informative, colourful but unimpassioned, on a page. There was no beginning, no middle, no end.

There is a fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration; there are daily small deaths.