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Quotes About Frustration

I made an egg salad sandwich and took a bite of it over the open silverware drawer. A piece of egg salad fell in among the forks. I swore softly with my mouth full. Another piece of egg salad fell in.
~ Nicholson Baker
Fridays! They are the worst. Days stuffed with itsy-bitsy multicoloured tasks that fill every second of the day, but like M&M´s fail to nourish in any way.
~ Unknown
I often think that if men realised how much time you spend as a woman pleading with men – pleading with them to stop doing what they're doing, or pleading with them to let you do whatever needs to be done – they'd understand a lot more about what our lives are like.
~ Unknown
I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE.
~ Nick Bantock
I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
~ Nick Cave
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.
~ Nick Hornby
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.
~ Nick Hornby
I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.
~ Nick Hornby
It's out of the question … Partly because I was always attracted to men or women who were never attracted to me. And I was never attracted to women and men who were attracted to me. I've never met the right person. I'd like to take [one mad plunge]. But not just with anyone; it just doesn't come naturally to me.
~ Unknown
think it might be true to say that we were close to calling it a day. Steve O'Rourke always maintained that each member of the band came to him separately at some point to vent his irritation, going as far as threatening to leave.
~ Nick Mason
Nathan's thoughts were a giant, angry sea tap-tap-tapping on a small dyke wall.
~ Unknown
her clothes were hung on old metal hangers like a threadbare assemblage of frustrated sighs.
~ Unknown
Being puzzled mad him anxious. Being anxious made him angry.
~ Nicola Griffith
I'm tired to stupidity. My apologies.
~ Nicola Griffith
It was hot, and it seemed stone would tell them nothing more.
~ Nicola Griffith
Frustration is the distinctive psychological characteristic of democratic society. Where all may legitimately aspire to the summit, the entire pyramid is an accumulation of frustrated individuals.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The incorrigible political error of the man of good will is to presuppose naively that at every moment it is possible to do what must be done. Here, where what is necessary is often impossible.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
They connected on every level - mental, philosophical, emotional. But she couldn't have him, not all of him.
~ Nicole Mones
This [waxed paper] is the paper that is perfect for keeping air-dried hams fresh. You could use cling film but it often causes the ham to sweat, and is rather wasteful. I have also reached the age where I can no longer find the end of the roll. Ditto sellotape. Ditto bloody everything.
~ Nigel Slater
You can get the clothes into the washing machine. You can get them out. You can arrange them over the radiators to dry. You can collect the dried clothes and put them in a heap ready for sorting. But you cannot, cannot, get the clothes back into their cupboards and drawers. Until that pile at the end of the bed becomes a volcano of frustration and accusation and despair; ever growing, ever depleting you.
~ Nikki Gemmell
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Leave me alone! Why do you insult me?" and in those heart-rending words he heard others: "I am your brother.
~ Nikolai Gogol
for there is no greater torment for a man than to desire revenge and be unable to get it.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Colin: "1 dinna understand why we canna just go to bed and have sex." He looked truly puzzled.
~ Unknown