Quotes about Frustration

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

And I have such a cold in the head—I can do nothing but sniffle, sigh and sneeze. Isn't that alliterative agony for you?

Whenever he got stuck for an idea, he would bang the Bible and shout very bitterly, 'Curse ye Meroz.' Poor Meroz got thoroughly cursed that day, whoever he was, Mrs. Dr. dear, said Susan.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

The Scriptures never indicate that God is frustrated to any degree by our failure to act as we should.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.