Frustration Quotes

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. (Leon Trotsky)
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. View quote
Anthony Robbins
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail. View quote
Lech Wałęsa
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. View quote
Alan Perlis
The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy. View quote
Germaine Greer
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. View quote
Eric Hoffer
I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration. View quote
William Boyd
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' View quote
Helen Fisher
All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.
I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration. (Ice Cube)
That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them. View quote
Genevieve Gorder
In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children. View quote
Parminder Nagra
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life. View quote
Alain de Botton
She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more. The Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head - that is the ultimate source of frustration. View quote
Joe Satriani
Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? View quote
Mary Douglas
I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream. View quote
Temple Grandin
I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political debate. I have been sorely tempted to launch a military attack on foreigners, and have felt the frustration of having to negotiate with allies or even former enemies to reach a consensus instead of taking more decisive unilateral action. (Jimmy Carter)
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that any action is better than no action, even if it's the wrong action; that you never reach glory or self-fulfillment unless you're willing to risk everything, dare anything, put yourself dead on the line every time; and that once one becomes strong or rich or potent or powerful it is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak become strong. View quote
Harlan Ellison
It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged”, a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration. View quote
Terry Eagleton
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out. View quote
Gregory Benford