Quotes about Frustration
To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
- Anonymous
There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.
- William Hazlitt
Sometimes I'd get mad because things didn't work out so well, I'd spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I'd be so mad I'd want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
- Jack Kerouac
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
- Dante Alighieri
It is true that back in the '60s I was quite frustrated that I never got a chance to speak or be interviewed.
- Judith Durham
Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.
- DH Lawrence
The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.
- Myles Munroe
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
- LM Montgomery
As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!
- Audrey Hepburn
I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.
- Camron Wright
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
- GK Chesterton
Why, thou monkey, we've been cruising now hard upon three years and thou hast not raised a whale yet. Whales are scarce as hen's teeth when thou art up there.
- Herman Melville