Quotes About Frustration

To imagine happiness as the achievement of all our wishes and passions is to confuse the legitimate aspiration to inner fulfillment with a utopia that inevitably leads to frustration.

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

After she received her umpteenth penalty, Cam paused the game and frowned at her. "You're not even trying to score. You're just hitting Logan.

The Grand Master felt surging within him one of those half-crazy rages which had so often come upon him in his prison, making him shout aloud and beat the walls. He felt that he was upon the point of committing some violent and terrible act – he did not know exactly what – but he felt the impulse to do something.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

Men were like cars – they were absolutely lovely until they went wrong.

Inside my head, I shit my pants.

First, the weather got hotter every day, and the hay press broke down every day. Second, the boss fell in love with Marian Wray, and the hay press broke down every day. Third, inside of forty-eight hours everybody on that crew hated everybody else, and the hay press broke down every day. Fourth, and most important of all, the hay press broke down every day.

If it doesn't make callouses on a girl's hands it will make them on her heart. I've been waiting all my life for a chance, and the chance has never come." Something flared in her.

I hate your infernal croaking, but, if you're bound to talk, I suppose that I got to listen. Blaze away and finish up.

If he feels bad because he is inferior, the cure is to make himself as good as everybody else, and the way to feel really good is to make himself superior. This striving for superiority gets him into more trouble, causes more frustration, and sometimes brings about a neurosis where none existed before. He becomes more miserable than ever, and "the harder he tries," the more miserable he becomes.

It just didn't work out. I was wrong, he was wrong. It just got all messed up.

Perhaps I'm tired of waiting for something I may never find.

I take it back. You're not stupid. But damn, you are insane.

Sve je bilo mogu?e, a ništa se nije ostvarivalo.

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her

I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.

You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?

It was lonely being mad at people.