Quotes About Frustration

Who knows why people split up? Dirty knickers on the bathroom shower rail once too often, these things get huge, don't they?

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

El ahorro, cuando se hace a costa de una necesidad insatisfecha, ocasiona en los hombres acritud y encono.

Entonces Daniel no sabía que los hombres se enfurecen a veces con la vida y contra un orden de cosas que consideran irritante y desigual.

When adversity threatens to paralyze us, we need to reassert control by finding a new direction in which to invest psychic energy, a direction that lies outside the reach of external forces. When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free.

When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free.

the universe was not created to answer our needs. Frustration is deeply woven into the fabric of life. And whenever some of our needs are temporarily met, we immediately start wishing for more.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "breeds pestilence.

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it.

nothing angers a woman more than the discovery that in the relationship between man and man there are things that women can never understand.

Freedom without discipline feels like chaos, and some of the most stifling environments are those where there is freedom without a framework of discipline. Likewise, discipline without freedom feels constricting, and will likely lead to rebellion once a child gets frustrated enough with the lack of freedom. In both cases, the result is fear.

When you were a little kid, remember how hard it was to get a cookie? Way in the back, unless your mom was really mean: Then they'd be on top of the refrigerator. Nowhere, any place on a package of Oreos does it say, "Keep out of reach of small children." Where was the Liquid Drano? Under the sink, right next to the rest of the poisons.

I no longer participate in the Section 8 program. They are very difficult to deal with in my town and cause you a ton of grief; no rent payments for the first two months and constant headaches and frustration. I had participated in my local Section 8 program since 1991 but as of three months ago, I will not accept any folks on the Section 8 Program.

All the waters in the oceans won't fill a bucket with a hole in it

Verily, my life is falling apart and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.

sometimes I struggle to get the thoughts out of my head because they are stuck behind one another like cars in a traffic jam.

Continual frustration of a child's striving for belonging can lead to resentment, hopelessness, or even vengeful behavior. The child who feels "different" most often feels inferior and isolated as well.

this seemed to be that time in his life when he could suck the life out of any project no matter how promising it appeared