Quotes about Frustration

Egotism is pathological self-obsession, a reaction to anxiety about whether one really does count. It is a form of acute selfconsciousness and can be prevented and healed only by the experience of being adequately loved. It is, indeed, a desperate response to frustration of the need we all have to count for something and be held to be irreplaceable, without price.

The cross means the acceptance of limitation on desire. Without establishing this for yourself, there can only be frustration and worse, for you simply cannot satisfy desire.

This is a day of little faith — of few convictions — a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs

He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was what made the folks so mad.

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.

I kept thinking that. I don't know why it is I can't seem to learn that a woman'll do anything.

Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat...

In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

It is not the stretching that tires you, but the frustration of stretching unsuccessfully because you lack the skill to stretch effectively.