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Quotes About Dissatisfaction

Instead, satisfaction and dissatisfaction are separate, independent measures. This means, for example, that it's possible to love your job and hate it at the same time.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
if you instantly improve the hygiene factors of your job, you're not going to suddenly love it. At best, you just won't hate it anymore. The opposite of job dissatisfaction isn't job satisfaction, but rather an absence of job dissatisfaction.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
An inconsolable longing describes that aching sense of waiting and dissatisfaction that regularly clouds our thoughts; that feeling that in the deepest depths of existence all we will find is a void.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Clarissa had a theory in those days - they had heaps of theories, always theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met every day; then not for six months, or years. It was unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people.
~ Virginia Woolf
In the glass she wore an expression of tense melancholy, for she had come to the depressing conclusion, since the arrival of the Dalloways, that her face was not the face she wanted, and in all probability never would be.
~ Virginia Woolf
A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied
~ Larry David
Still, for sixteen years I saw the way he passed the butter dish across the dining room table to her, as if he wished it could be more, as if he wished she could life the lid and precious gems would spill over her dinner, as if that might finally make her happy- an inedible, improvident gift, like easy, unexpected laughter.
~ Laura Kasischke
There had been no one thing at which to point blame. The break-up was the accumulation of months of dissatisfaction. But if there was one thing that had tipped her over the edge, it was the toothpaste.
~ Lauren Dane
the people, on account of this thing over and above all, might rebel and do harm.
~ Laurence Bergreen
You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.
~ Charles Baxter
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
~ Charles Dickens
he is a confoundedly bad kind of man. He is a slow-torturing kind of man. He is no more like flesh and blood than a rusty old carbine is. He is a kind of man?by George!?that has caused more restlessness, and more uneasiness, and more dissatisfaction with myself than all other men put together. That's the kind of man Mr. Tulkinghorn is!
~ Charles Dickens
You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it.
~ Charles Dickens
Now, Biddy," said I, "I am very sorry to see this in you. I did not expect to see this in you. You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it." "If you have the heart to think so," returned Biddy, "say so. Say so over and over again, if you have the heart to think so.
~ Charles Dickens
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
~ Harold Coffin, unverified
Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Short term goals are often based on dissatisfaction, and actions based on dissatisfaction will eventually lead to a life of unhappiness.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
culpa por ser una burguesa enclaustrada en una realidad más falsa que el decorado de una telenovela...
~ Guillermo Arriaga
I don't like him," said Gus. "Never did. Guy bitches about what he doesn't have, loses sight of what he does have, and is never happy. He's what you call a - what's that word?" "Pessimist?" said Fet. "Asshole," said Gus.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have their head examined. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
A vague dissatisfaction grew up within him as he looked on the quays and on the river and on the lowering skies and yet he continued to wander up and down day after day as if he really sought someone that eluded him
~ James Joyce
He didn't look mad, but he didn't look like Martin Luther King neither.
~ James McBride
great old time talking about cheeseburgers while I sat there thinking about how miserable my life was about to get. What did all this mean, exactly?
~ James Patterson
There are people who are unhappy with everything.
~ Prince