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Frustration Quotes


"Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life."


"I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films."


"I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington."


"I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy."


"By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out."


"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."



"I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration."


"The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world."


"It wasn't all frustration. I've had a lot of good times with Ferrari as well."


"It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one."


"Locals. They'll eventually get out. They're annoyed. Like when Americans go to the lake. And it's closed. 'Cause some kid pooped in the water."


"I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to."


"I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city."


"On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper."


"It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us."


"I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration."


"Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!"


"I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance."


"Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives."


"I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state."


"His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost as soon as they entered the sphere of his existence."


"Oh, Oh my fucking mother she screw ups everything!"


"ZoA, threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!"


"Otis! Will you PLEASE stop killing me!"


"Off Fuck off... the same story over and over and again and again.. I don't want it!"


"She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty." Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim."


"The experience of frustration comes from the separation we impose between our yearning and our fear. Generally, we yearn for that which we fear, or at least fear the unknown (mystery, and therefore and paradoxically, truth) that will be caused through the pursuit of yearning. The more the separation between these two, yearning and fear, the more frustration if you are conscious, or the more neurosis if you are not (literally, "I can't stand the frustration, I'm going crazy)."



"I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!"
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