Frustration Quotes - Page 26

• but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Pain, Men

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• It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Hands, Confusion

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

  Anchee Min

  Order, Mind, Dying

  Anchee Min (2006). “Empress Orchid”, p.224, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Laughter, Laughing, Energy

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• In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that they believe, first, that they possess Christ's power to bestow salvation, second, that forcing us to memorize and regurgitate a few of their favorite Bible phrases and attend their church is that salvation, and third, that any discomfort, frustration, anger or disagreement we express in the face of their moronic barrages is due not to their astounding effrontery but to our sinfulness?

  David James Duncan

  Real, Believe, People

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.227, Dial Press

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• You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is about, that all those other fiction writers started as you did, and are laborers in the same vineyard.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• I gestured my frustration. “I don’t know. She’s much better already. She wasn’t talking half an hour ago. Look at her now.” We all turned, finding Ceri sobbing quietly and drinking her tea in small reverent sips as the pixy girls hovered over her. Three were plating her long, fair hair and another was singing to her. Okay,” I said as we turned back. “Bad example.

  Kim Harrison

  Girl, Drinking, Hair

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• No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.

  Slash

  Life Changing, Sadness, Fate

  Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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• No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.

  Dean Koontz

  Relationship, Dog, Betrayal

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• Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Opportunity, Ideas, Creative

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• People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration.

  Susan Sontag

  Emotional, People, Feelings

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.102, Macmillan

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• But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

  Dave Eggers

  Inspiration, Animal, Somewhere Else

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.287, Pan Macmillan

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• If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Return, Sense Of Humor, Impatience

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.

  Christopher Fry

  Ambition, Animal, Differences

  "Comedy". Vogue, January, 1951.

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• Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

  Gregory Benford

  Dream, Luxury, Comfort

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.136, Spectra

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• Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either of frustration or of fulfilment) to the inevitable flow of terrestrial motivation and events. That is - both schools retain in a vestigial way the primitive concept of a conscious teleology - of a cosmos which gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitos, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dog, Horse, Motivation

  Letter to James F. Morton (1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 483), 1996.

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• Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Needs, Arbitrary, Action

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.

  Ivan Illich

  Affirmation, Rich, Pollution

  Ivan Illich, Lionel Rubinoff (1971). “Tradition and Revolution”, Macmillan of Canada ; New York : St. Martin's Press

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• Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

  Madeleine Albright

  Hate, Policy

  "Oprah Talks to Madeleine Albright". www.oprah.com. December 2001.

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• Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Failure, Errors

  Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.336

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• When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Hardship, Emotion, Purging

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• I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Small Numbers, People

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• Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Joy, Mind, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Pain, Joy, Age

  Interview with Don Cohen, appel.nasa.gov. June 1, 2008.

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• At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Long, Anxiety, Comfort

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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