Quotes of Frustration - somelinesforyou

“ I believe in a long prolonged derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ”

- Jim Morrison

“ Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. ”

- Chuck Noll

“ Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates. ”

- Mordecai Richler

“ Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. ”

- Bo Bennett

“ In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word frustration. ”

- Alan Perlis

“ Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ How can you close me up? On what grounds. ”

- Humphrey Bogart

“ Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. ”

- Charlie Chaplin

“ Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ There was frustration, obviously. You can't get that many opportunities and not do anything with it, and not get frustrated about it. ”

- Joe Torre

“ The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. ”

- Elizabeth Drew

“ It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. ”

- A. Whitney Brown

“ Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet. ”

- Cynthia Nixon

“ All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. ”

- Dorothea Brande

“ I've had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, How do you know what the future is going to be like? And I'd always say, I don't. ”

- William Gibson

“ Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. ”

- Leon Trotsky

“ Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed. ”

- Marilyn Manson

“ Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems. ”

- Michael J. Tucker

“ A great frustration in life is discovering that sometimes those who say something can't be done turn out to be right. ”

- Donald Simanek

“ Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you. ”

- Kirsten Dunst

“ Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing. ”

- Malcom Mclaren

“ It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged" — a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration. ”

- Terry Eagleton

“ I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. ”

- Marie Chapian

“ Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. ”

- Unknown

“ One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes. ”

- Helen Merrell Lynd

“ Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. ”

- Dale Carnegie
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