Frustration Quotes · Page 7

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

— Teresa of Avila

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

— Ned Beauman

Frustration is our announcement to ourselves that we need to move back into love in order to find our "center" once again.

— Neale Donald Walsch

“one must not prostrate oneself before the minor impossibilities, otherwise the major impossibilities would never come into view.”

— Franz Kafka

Your anger, frustration and your hurt - you have to try to put that all behind you and move on.

— Darren Bent

Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.

— Patti Smith

“Some people are as frustrated as a three-headed woodpecker in a petrified forest.”

— T.F. Tenney

“God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.”

— Shannon L. Alder

When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence.…

— Nouman Ali Khan

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by…

— Hyman Rickover

There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I…

— Gary Sinise

You have to feel your own personal truth with a little ‘t’ – your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order…

— Derek Rydall

“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving…

— Gustave Flaubert

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the…

— Philip Roth

I really think you get the jobs you're supposed to get. And don't stress over the jobs that you don't. That would…

— Constance Zimmer

When fighters get ready for fights, they get real crabby, and they get real short-tempered. And then they fight and they let…

— Anthony Smith

“I opened my louvres and looked at Comfort, walking in the heavy rain, crying bitterly. I heard mom saying, Anywhere you want…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of…

— Susan Sontag

It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife,…

— Henry Rollins

I know that I'm very susceptible to getting caught up in storylines like, "I want him to be different. I want him…

— Sara Bareilles

I've always been interested in miracles, or the miraculous of the unexplained. I don't scoff at what makes people believe or want…

— John Irving

A soldier in Iraq said that he wanted to "punch Donald Rumsfeld in the gut, then in the face" or something like…

— Michael Hastings

In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so…

— David James Duncan

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over…

— Gary Paulsen

I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration.

— Sam Levinson

We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.

— Solanus Casey

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

— Garrison Keillor

She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.

— Cecelia Ahern

When I left the U.S., I sort of left that frustration and that pressure to make the national team behind me.

— Christen Press

There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration.

— Sharan Burrow

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

— William Boyd

Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation.

— Rajneesh

Success is built on failure, on frustration, on catastrophe, it is your determination and spirit which culminates into success.

— Anil Sinha

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this…

— Lars von Trier

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the…

— Zhuangzi

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

— Norman Vincent Peale

“She needed to come with an instructional manual. And one not written in Spanish.”

— Kelly Moran

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

— Henry Petroski

You're going to feel every bit of Stan Van Gundy's frustration if his team had a tough quarter.

— Doris Burke