I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

— Brown, A. Whitney

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

— Cioran, E. M.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

— Drew, Elizabeth

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

— Hoffer, Eric

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

— Kierkegaard, Soren

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

— Pirandello, Luigi