"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"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. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure."
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"Were you born this infuriating?"
"It's taken me years of practice."
— Misty Massey (Mad Kestrel)

"Wii Sports: All the frustration of real sports with out the physical exercise."
— Felix Harneis

"Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull."
— Rod Serling

"...I just sit at the typewriter and curse a bit."
— P. G. Wodehouse

"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 (The Silver Door)

"...All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter. "
— Hubert Selby Jr. (Requiem for a Dream)

"Where the heck do I apply for Librarian status??!!"
— Johnna Cornett

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
— Friedrich von Schiller (Historical Dramas: Mary-Stuart/the Maid of Orleans/the Bride of Messina)

"Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?"
— Robert Burns (The Poetical Works of Robert Burns)