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Quotes About Frustration

It was all terrible and tiring and meaningless.
~ Edna O'Brien
You might have written. Every bit of your daily life interests me. I wrote this day fortnight but it was returned. Tampered with.
~ Edna O'Brien
I swear if you existed I'd divorce you.
~ Edward Albee
Ninety per cent of the drugs were for him and ten per cent for Natasha, a woman who remained an impenetrable mystery to him during the six months they lived together. The only thing he felt certain about was that she irritated him; but then, who didn't?
~ Edward St. Aubyn
David dropped the hose on the gravel path, thinking how useless to him Eleanor had become. She had been rigid with terror for too long. It was like trying to palpate a patient's swollen liver when one had already proved that it hurt. She could only be persuaded to relax so often.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
And my heart is a handful of dust, / And the wheels go over my head, / And my bones are shaken with pain, / For into a shallow grave they are thrust, / Only a yard beneath the street,' something, something, 'enough to drive one mad.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
He knew that she could not help him unravel the knot of inarticulacy that he carried inside him. Instead, he could feel it tightening, like a promise of suffocation that shadowed every breath he took.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
I hate this place,' she said. 'They're going to throw me out because they say I've got a bad attitude. But I only stay in bed because I'm so depressed.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
It was unbelievable, there was the dry-cleaning ticket again. There must be more than one.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
The trouble with not being a psychopath. Every avenue was blocked.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Oh Jesus, thought Patrick, let me out of here. He imagined himself disappearing through the floor with a shovel and some bunk-bed slats, the theme music of The Great Escape humming in the air. He was crawling under the crematorium through fragile tunnels, when he felt himself being dragged backwards by Annette's maddening voice.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
In any type of institution whatsoever, when a self-directed, imaginative, energetic, or creative member is being consistently frustrated and sabotaged rather than encouraged and supported, what will turn out to be true one hundred percent of the time, regardless of whether the disrupters are supervisors, subordinates, or peers, is that the person at the very top of that institution is a peace-monger.
~ Edwin H. Friedman
But the trouble with simulations is that they put up with far too much shit.
~ Alastair Reynolds
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
~ Albert Einstein
at the core of whatever made this human atom pile smolder he wasn't cooking anymore. He was all bottled
~ Albert Goldman
Conspicuous Boredom Unless the subject of the conversation is how great they are, Narcissistic vampires will become visibly bored. One of the main reasons Narcissists wear expensive watches is so they can look at them when someone else is talking. Besides boredom, Narcissistic vampires have only two other emotional states. They're either on top of the world or on the bottom of the garbage heap. The slightest frustration can burst their balloon and send them crashing to the depths.
~ Albert J. Bernstein
The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
~ Albertano of Brescia
Me carga que la gente espere cosas de mí. Me enreda, me complica, me obliga a responder.
~ Alberto Fuguet
Que apestosa esta huevada. Es como si nada avanzara, las imágenes se repiten.
~ Alberto Fuguet
Giovanotto è inutile che si arrampichi... qui è tutta pianura.
~ Alberto Moravia
Five years married and he has never once wished he dared kill her.
~ Alden Nowlan
Giornate che a metterle assieme e pigiarle tutte quante non ne uscirebbe una stilla di vita. Ma la vita è così: ammassata e secca, piena di avvenimenti sterili e ripetuti e sempre uguali e di cui si perde memoria. Spremi, e verrà fuori un pulviscolo di frustrazioni standard e un odore di fenolo, un polverizzarsi di garze faraoniche.
~ Aldo Busi
I am I, and I wish I weren't.
~ Aldous Huxley
Ninguna dificultad se compara a la de explicar pacientemente a un a persona mediocre la razón de nuestro desencasillamiento. De nuestro disconformismo. De nuestra INMORALIDAD.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik