Frustration Quotes
672 Frustration quotes by 511 unique authors
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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it…
— Wayne Dyer
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If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide…
— Dave Eggers
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And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain…
— Hugh Prather
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Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even…
— R A Salvatore
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She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely…
— Ann Brashares
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I have learned that frustration is allowed and talking it through is necessary.
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom…
— Paulo Coelho
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It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
— C.S. Lewis
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
— Bill Watterson
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If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person…
— Dalai Lama
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In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We…
— Anchee Min
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All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that…
— David James Duncan
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You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in…
— Annie Dillard
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I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but…
— Holly Lisle
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I gestured my frustration. “I don’t know. She’s much better already. She wasn’t talking half an hour ago. Look at her now.” We all turned,…
— Kim Harrison
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No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide…
— Slash
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No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you…
— Dean Koontz
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Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration
— Phil McGraw
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People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of…
— Susan Sontag
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Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one…
— Joseph Heller
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Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
— Charlie Chaplin
Who Wrote These Frustration Quotes
511 authors contributed a total of 672 Frustration Quotes, led by these top contributors: