#frustration

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

#attitude #frustration #humor #attitude

Sooo, I'm tired of people thinking I'm a freak. I know you can't relate to that but -" "Get over it already, will ya?" Candace stood. "You're not Smellody anymore. You're pretty. You can get hot guys now. Tanned ones with good vision. Not geeky hose jousters." She shut the window. "Don't you ever want to use your lips as something other than veneer protectors?" Melody felt a familiar pinch behind her eyes. Her throat dried. Her eyes burned. And then they came. Like salty little paratroopers, tears descended en masse. She hated Candace thought she had never made out with a boy. But how could she convince a seventeen-year-old with more dates than a fruitcake that Randy the Starbucks cashier (aka Scarbucks, because of his acne scars) was a great kisser? She couldn't. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#dating #frustration #hurt-feelings #loser #nicknames

Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they call your house, send you an email, talk to your family or discuss you with their friends and family is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#frustration #gossip #hidden-agendas #insecurity #not-caring

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 of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. ↗

— Edward Levi

#appears #artificial #attempt #cause #change

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee. ↗

— Jerry Pinto

#frustration #home #illness #home

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#humor #laughter #humor

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#frustration #imagination #imagination

Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually reading any of my work for that matter. Still I will continue to write regardless. I suppose it is similar to people who talk just to hear their own voice. I write simply to see my own thoughts in print. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#frustration #writing #writing-life #life

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing! ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#apathy #frustration #anger

To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me very often, but I hated it when it did. It was faulty wiring in the female body, tear ducts attached directly to the frustration meter. Trying to explain to men that no, I wasn't being manipulative, I just couldn't stop my eyes from leaking salt water, only added to the aggravation. ↗

— C.E. Murphy

#tears #men