Frustration Quotes

672 Frustration quotes by 511 unique authors

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially… — May Sarton
If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart. — Cooper Edens
When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the… — Haim Ginott
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. — Anton Chekhov
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss,… — Elizabeth Drew
I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load… — Terry O'Quinn
You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard… — Andy Partridge
When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's… — Joey Ramone
When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads… — Frederick Lenz
This world is not a middle point in evolution. It's one step down from the middle point in evolution. This is the world of desire… — Frederick Lenz
The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are… — Frederick Lenz
Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile. — Frederick Lenz
Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering,… — Frederick Lenz
As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that… — Frederick Lenz
In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration. — Frederick Lenz
If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do. — Deborah Tannen
Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown… — Robert D. Kaplan
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens.… — Archibald MacLeish
Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart… — Hans Selye
The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix… — Charles J. Givens
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept… — Edward H. Levi
I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration. — Allen Carr
Oh, my only - if I had one frustration in being on 'West Wing' is I wasn't on it enough, because I was in and… — Stockard Channing
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears… — Edwidge Danticat
That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not… — Willem Dafoe

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