Alain de Botton Frustration Quotations

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

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

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.