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Quotes About Dissatisfaction

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
~ Thomas Hardy
She is lazy and dissatisfied. But that is not all of it. Supposing her to be as good a woman as any you can find, which she certainly is not, why do you wish to connect yourself with anybody at present?
~ Thomas Hardy
It would lead him back, restore him to himself, but there is nothing so distasteful as being restored to oneself when one is beside oneself.
~ Thomas Mann
a born objector, I saw that at once, down on the existing order; and that always gives me the impression that the person is spoilt—I can't help it.
~ Thomas Mann
The customer is always right, Brook Lynn often said. And Jessie Kay agreed...unless the customer was a douche bag, and then he was just a douche bag.
~ Gena Showalter
Was it unpleasant? I don't know, I said. Everything is so unpleasant nowadays it's hard to tell.
~ Iris Murdoch
He felt irritably dissatisfied with himself. Then his old huge familiar misery gradually returned like an old friend.
~ Iris Murdoch
At any rate, without quite knowing what dissatisfied me about the robot stories I read, I waited for something better, and I found it in the December 1938 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. That issue contained "Helen O'Loy" by Lester del Rey, a story in which a robot was portrayed sympathetically. It was, I believe, only his second story, but I was a del Rey fan forever after.
~ Isaac Asimov
Boredom is rage spread thin.
~ Paul Tillich
I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.
~ Robert Wyatt
In the case of Bosnia, studies showed that turning to religion was a consequence of post-war depression and dissatisfaction.
~ Jasmila Zbanic
We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
I finished The Freebie, which was a small relationship "talky" movie, and I was like, "I just want to get out of the house! And I want there to be some action, and I want some tension in there!"
~ Katie Aselton
What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?
~ Malcolm Forbes
Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.
~ Ray Davies
When lust combines with love, feelings like dissatisfaction, lack of trust, lack of understanding, jealousy and possessiveness are produced
~ Nirja
Let me insist that erudition is important to me. It signals genuine intellectual curiosity. It accompanies an open mind and the desire to probe the ideas of others. Above all, an erudite can be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and such dissatisfaction is a wonderful shield against Platonicity, the simplifications of the five-minute manager, or the philistinism of the overspecialized scholar. Indeed, scholarship without erudition can lead to disasters.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Above all, an erudite can be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and such dissatisfaction is a wonderful shield against Platonicity, the simplifications of the five-minute manager, or the philistinism of the overspecialized scholar. Indeed, scholarship without erudition can lead to disasters.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
an erudite can be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and such dissatisfaction is a wonderful shield against Platonicity, the
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This didn't make me sad exactly - it was more a feeling that my own world was too simple, too smooth, too boring and worthless. The most I could do was have another name, Ninna Hori.
~ Natsuo Kirino
Probably chicken again. He's sick of chicken.
~ Neal Shusterman
We're Pentupcostal because we're sick of all the hypocrisy.
~ Neal Shusterman
My cock was hard, but my spirit wasn't in it.
~ Charles Bukowski
poetry it takes a lot of desperation dissatisfaction and disillusion to write a few good poems. it's not for everybody either to write it or even to read it.
~ Charles Bukowski