Quotes About Dissatisfaction

Government is more like sex than people think. When you are having good sex, you don't appreciate it enough. When you are having bad sex, it is all you can think about.

Government is more like sex than people think. When you are having good sex, you don't appreciate it enough. When you are having bad sex, it is all you can think about.

She couldn't imagine ever having sex with Kevin again. The very idea repulsed her.

This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.

All I knew was that at almost fifteen it's very difficult to be satisfied with the age you are, because you aren't really any age.

We are never satisfied with what we have done. We know that our best is never adequate. If I had to be satisfied with what I have written I'd still be on my first novel. But I wrote what was for me the best book I could write at that moment in time.

Then again, it seemed my mother was always displeased with all her friends, with me, and even with my father. Something was always missing. Something always needed improving. Something was not in balance. This one or that had too much of one element, not enough of another.

She didn't understand people who thrived on argument and being right all the time. Her mother was that way, and what did that get her? Nothing but unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and anger.

All the picketers look bored and hot and like they

Hmmph. This was a sorry excuse for a baby-sitting club.

I'm quite happy in my unhappy way. I'm more than satisfied to remain unsatisfied

We also know people who are definitely not fun to be around. There's a heaviness to their presence, an agitation to their energy. And they often leave us feeling dissatisfied and drained, as if something has been taken away, instead of given to us. These are the energy vampires. They send out hateful signals because, no matter how they may behave, they're inwardly hateful to themselves.

You know you're in a bad patch when the most interesting part of the book you're reading is the acknowledgments page.

At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

I hate this stinking little butt crack of a town!

THE LORD. You've nothing more to say to me? You come but to complain unendingly? Is never aught right to your mind? MEPHISTOPHELES. No, Lord! All is still downright bad, I find.

Acaso esas ganas de cambiar de situación no son en realidad una íntima e incómoda impaciencia que me perseguirá donde quiera que vaya?

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.

La testa, ah sì, il male è là, è per l'insoddisfazione della testa che il corpo si sta ammalando.

what a terrible thing a dissatisfied mind is.

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

The decline problem is a double whammy, then: we need ever-greater success to avoid dissatisfaction, yet our abilities to stay even are declining. No, it's actually a triple whammy, because as we try to stay even, we wind up in patterns of addictive behavior such as workaholism, which puts strivers into unhealthy relationship patterns at the cost of deep connection to spouses, children, and friends.