Frustration Quote by Haruki Murakami

“Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. It was possible,…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“Living in a world where constantly one turned and touched incomprehension—they did not comprehend, he did not comprehend—gave the air the lift of uncertainty…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“A joy without object or reason rose within him, but like all such joys ebbed into frustration almost immediately because he did not know…

— John Clellon Holmes

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

“Those things that he held most deeply were most profoundly betrayed when he spoke of them to his classes; what was most alive withered…

— John Williams

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

— Jane Austen

“Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.”

— Jane Austen

“Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than…

— Paul Bowles

“All night he either traversed his apartment with an agitation equal to that, which anxiety had so lately inflicted, or composed and destroyed letters…

— Ann Radcliffe

“He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions.”

— George Orwell