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Quotes About Frustration

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
~ Paul Gauguin
This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing.
~ Paul Laurence Dunbar
Like a drowning man with a Styrofoam cooler.
~ Paul Levine
If disgust was a shotgun I would've blown my own head off.
~ Paul Neilan
I chose to get angry when you did what you did.
~ Unknown
Sometimes you've just got to let them scream, right?
~ Paul Park
The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions; and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.
~ Paul Robeson
President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.
~ Paul Ryan
The food was bad, the people were angry
~ Paul S. Kemp
Cavett. "What makes you stuck?" Simon. "Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck
~ Paul Simon
Cavett: What makes you stuck? Simon: Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck.
~ Paul Simon
Gene snapped at Peter: "Peter, you're an illiterate idiot who can't read or even talk correctly and never finished school." "Yeah," said Peter, "and I'm in the same band as you.
~ Paul Stanley
The back and forth dance of "keep your distance a little closer" is incredibly frustrating for friends and family.
~ Unknown
Some people with the conventional type of BPD have the opposite problem: they feel unable to express their anger at all.
~ Unknown
impulsive aggression is an impulsive, hostile, even violent reaction, triggered by immediate threats of rejection or abandonment paired with frustration.
~ Unknown
One evening Bowie vented his frustration, says Pitt, by telling him, "I'm going to write some Top Ten rubbish," then proceeded to write a song that was neither. "Let Me Sleep Beside You" would be his first collaboration with Tony Visconti, the producer with whom he's most associated; the finest song Bowie had written to that point, it also became the cause of his biggest artistic setback.
~ Unknown
It must be the condition of our age. There are more explosions, but they are only the side effect of not accepting the nature of our wrongness, of believing it must be the world that is deformed instead— unsure whether to abandon or destroy it, some opt for both.
~ Unknown
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
~ Paul Wellstone
And if I tried to talk to him or, God forbid, ask him to take it easy on the whisky, he'd lash out. "Oh, sod off, Beryl. It's all easy for you, isn't it?
~ Paula McLain
then, hardly daring to breathe, lowered myself onto him. But it was too late. Before I had even begun to move, he softened inside me. I tried to kiss him, but he wouldn't meet my eyes.
~ Paula McLain
We were newlyweds, after all—but when evening came things fell apart. We'd been married for several weeks now, and I could count on one hand the number of times we'd actually had sex.
~ Paula McLain
It was one of his qualities that most frustrated me, how once you had a black tick in his book, you were pretty much done for.
~ Paula McLain
There comes a time in every relationship when as far as a man is concerned everything that needs to be said has been said. Usually we women are too busy talking to ourselves to notice but, when we do figure it out, boy are we mad.
~ Paula Wall
Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do .
~ Pauline Kael