41 Overcoming Frustration Quotes and Sayings

There are many series of events in life that can lead to frustrations and dissatisfaction. From failures in expectations or the loss of something loved, these overcoming frustration quotes and sayings capture these aspects of our life perfectly.

“All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.”

“And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve.”

“Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals.”

“Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.”

“Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.”

“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”

“Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.”

“Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.”

“Hell is the impossibility of reason.”

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

“I can’t beat you, I can’t join you.”

“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”

“I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.”

“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.”

“I haven’t got time for a love life and that’s usually frustrating to the would-be lovers. Care to make a run for it?”

“I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”

“I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.”

“I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more.”

“If you’re at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.”

“I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.”

“It is okay of airing out your frustration, just don’t dwell on them. Find out the cause and find a solution of getting rid of it. If you can’t have the solution much as well accept it.”

“It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.”

“It’s not like I’m all into nostalgia and history, it’s just that I can’t stand the way things are now.”

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

“Men are always complaining about how difficult it is to understand women but I think it is the other way round. Men clan up and do not express what they feel.”

“No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitted to pass more than a fortnight in the same place.”

“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 failed to accomplish.”

“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.”

“She’d ceased spying upon him, that was true, but the damage was done. Every time he sat at his desk, he could feel her eyes upon him, even though he knew very well she’d shut her curtains tight.”

“So this was it. You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday’s underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how to knit.”

“That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.”

“The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.”

“Then I realized that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn’t let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration.”

“There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser.”

“To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.”

“Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at – look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work.”

“Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life.”

“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the “life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else.”

“We’ve established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived… and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!”

“What is it about men, anyway? You can’t live with ’em and the law frowns on neutering them. It’s not exactly a win-win situation.”

“You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.”

There are many ways to overcome frustration. Many of these strategies will help you to seek peace in times of despair.