Quotes about Frustration

When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way.

I waited with some anxiety, and suddenly, filling out the glass on the other side of the window was Winnie's lovely face. Winnie always dressed up for prison visits, and tried to wear something new and elegant. It was tremendously frustrating not to be able to touch me wife, to speak tenderly to her, to have a private moment together.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

huffed. I get huffed because I have a peculiar person to live with. Just think how disagreeable I have been to God!

If Jesus Christ is only a teacher, then all He can do is frustrate me by setting a standard before me I cannot attain.

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”

“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”

If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!”

The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.

The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.