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I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime. — Kurt Vonnegut

All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others. — Bryant McGill

Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have
tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love. — Leonard Nimoy

Not everything needs to be planned, Zane," Ty answered with a tinge of frustration. "Not everything needs a why or how. — Abigail Roux

about to turn to frustration, — Scott Cawthon

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world. — Spike Lee

Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus! — James Agee

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration. — Dick Bennett

He worked out his frustration with life on the creek every morning. — Nicholas Sparks

I felt my eyes widen slightly, feeling like the kid of the group who didn't understand anything and was a pain to have around. — Embee

I wanted to bite him hard enough to express my frustration, yet sweetly enough that he'd let me do it again. — Amy Harmon

Frustration mingled with despair in my
heart. — Laura Howard

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. — Edith Sitwell

But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred. — Wayne White

I finally understood why he was called Mad Rogan. It wasn't because he was insane. It was because he drove you nuts with sheer frustration. We — Ilona Andrews

My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Politics were the ultimate frustration. — Karen Traviss

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

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price. — Robert Kennedy

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons. — Andrea Bouchaud

Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side. — Michele Jennae

Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long! — Charlotte Bronte

Inside was a tableau of frustration that might've been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail. — Ransom Riggs

As long as I leave my frustration behind, I know I am moving toward my goal again. — Tara Lipinski

Utter frustration often precedes the breakthrough so stick with it and have faith in your journey. — Sam Owen

The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear. — Alcoholics Anonymous

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to. — David Gilmour

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

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals. — Janeane Garofalo

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. — Ernest K. Gann

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 that you cannot follow. — Holly Lisle

I moaned in frustration, trapped between desire and fear. "God, Roth." "In your life, at this time, those two words could be considered synonymous. — Jasinda Wilder

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled — Michael Foley

If you are aware of the kind of hunger, regrets and frustrations that follows rumpy pumpy, you would stir clear from hanky panky. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Expectation is the mother of all frustration. — Antonio Banderas

I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed. — Iman

One side of his lips quirked up in a sexy smirk. "Got a cure for
that frustration you got going on," he said.
"Got a cure for your ego? — Jamie Farrell

Oh, go ahead and giggle," Lady Danbury sighed. "I've found that the only way to avoid parental frustration is to view him as a source of amusement. — Julia Quinn

Trying harder doesn't always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up. — John Bingham

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. — Alan Perlis

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee. — Jerry Pinto

I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me. — Vera Wang

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. — Bo Bennett

I have learned that frustration is allowed and talking it through is necessary. — Sabrina Ward Harrison

Leviathan simply twists those words as well, creating even greater misunderstanding in an ever-increasing cycle of chaos, confusion, frustration and — Robert Hotchkin

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration. — Wes Fesler

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Frustration of mind can be revel through writing something even if it will be never read. — Kartik Mehta

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings. — Samuel Beckett

I can't control my frustration. — Hasso Plattner

Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations. — Chuck Palahniuk

Managers and leaders cause most of the organizational confusion and frustration by not doing their jobs - their real jobs. — Liz Weber

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. — Chuck Noll

Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE! — Dana Arcuri

For she felt a sudden emptiness; a frustration. Her feeling had come too late; there it was ready; but he no longer needed it. — Virginia Woolf

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns. — Madeleine L'Engle

Identify what frustrates you and find a way to fix it! — Abhishek Ratna

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result. — Steven Gerrard

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists. — John Cameron

She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought. — B. Barmanbek

Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put 'em in quotations — John Mayer

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt. — Robert Lopez

I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you. — Jessica Fortunato

I grant you that frustration is a very mild form of fear, yet it is fear nonetheless. — Neale Donald Walsch

When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration. — Magic Johnson

The smell of frustration cannot compete with the stench of non-creation — Daniel Lee Edstrom

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball. — Carlton Fisk

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. — Dick Dale

Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

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. — Gregory Benford

If you experience any emotion like frustration, hesitation or anger, while planning your dream life , means you need to clear some mental blocks. — Hina Hashmi

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. — Criss Jami

Every time I feel mad or something, I run somewhere. It gets my frustrations away. I run and run and run. — Pedro Martinez

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much. — Jim Gaffigan

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

Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation;
When patience was a virtue ... but I wasn't used to waitin. — Black Thought

Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination. — Thomas Crum

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions. — David Hilfiker

Christmas is the beachhead of God's campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration. — Tullian Tchividjian

Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure. — Robert Anton Wilson

I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet. — Cynthia Nixon

Life is like Bed of Roses... Start giving away the Roses to make others happy and you would know what is left behind in your bed for you... — John Gabriel

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another. — Robert Bateman

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration. — Alan Watts

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing. — Philip Guston

As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud. — Steve Ballmer

The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration. — Thomas Merton

Discouragement is the cancer of great things. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it. — Elizabeth Bear

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope. — Robert A. Heinlein

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me. — John Howard Griffin

Life without knowing your destiny leads to "rat races", depression and frustration, and attempt to commit suicide — Sunday Adelaja

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations. — Abraham Low

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration. — Diane Kruger

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' — Helen Fisher

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself. — Hannah Arendt

Frustration is an important directional arrow. It shows you where to go to move forward. And what to move away from. — Julie Connor

A frustrated person was born by frustration.
Petra Hermans — Petra Hermans

When expectations exceed reality, frustration is the result. — Jeffrey A. White