Quotes about Frustration
Being human can be so dispiriting. It is a real stretch for me a lot of the time.
- Anne Lamott
Try to be a good sport, baby. Sharon feels as bad as you do. It's all right for you to be mad, but...try to be as good a sport as you can. I'll tell you. It's a run-of-the-mill shitty thing. Life is full of them. And it is ALWAYS feels better to be kind.
- Anne Lamott
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
- Anne Lamott
You have the freedom to change how you spend your day. You can outsource the tasks and find the guts to do emotional labor instead. You can go out on a limb and do what others aren't doing. The most frustrated marketers I know are the ones who take it as a given that because they are in industry x, they have no freedom. And so real estate brokers hustle for listings and do precisely what the other brokers do.
- Seth Godin
How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.
- DH Lawrence
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
- John Mayer
A "god" whose will is resisted, whose designs are frustrated, whose purpose is checkmated, possesses no title to Deity, and so far from being a fit object of worship, merits naught but contempt.
- AW Pink
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
- George Eliot
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
- Samuel Beckett
It amuses me to think how angry I used to get when people wouldn't sign my peace petitions.
- Marianne Williamson
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.
- George Eliot
As frustrating as people can be, it's hard to find a good substitute.
- John Ortberg