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Quotes About Dissatisfaction

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.
~ Leo Tolstoy
No teško je nezadovoljnu ?ovjeku da ne kori bilo koga drugoga, i to upravo onoga tko mu je najbliži, za ono zbog ?ega je nezadovoljan.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Noticing other people's faults arises from dissatisfaction with ourselves. Often, in criticizing our neighbour, we fall into making the same error for which we have just criticized someone else. Those people who are not concerned about the salvation of their soul and who do not attempt to improve themselves can easily fall into temptation and be seduced into following the example of others. From Pious Thoughts
~ Leo Tolstoy
Mas, para uma pessoa insatisfeita, é difícil não por a culpa nos outros, sobretudo em quem estiver mais perto de tudo aquilo que causa a sua insatisfação.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Vrea s? muÈ™te din fructul amar, dar f?r? s?-i guste am?reala. S? lucrezi în lume, dar s? nu simÈ›i nici un fel de dragoste pentru lume.
~ Leon Wieseltier
Those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
~ Lewis Carroll
There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
~ Noam Chomsky
He was particularly dissatisfied with Aristotle's insistence that tragedy should invariably depict the downfall of a flawed or 'middling' hero, insisting instead that what made a tragedy was the severity of the threat rather than the play's actual outcome.
~ Jean Racine
There is, I feel, an age at which an individual man would want to stop. You will seek the age at which you would want your species to have stopped. Dissatisfied with your present state for reasons that portend even greater grounds for dissatisfaction for your unhappy posterity, perhaps you would like to be able to go backwards in time.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more.
~ Johnny Paycheck
I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.
~ Samantha Mumba
There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.
~ Anais Nin
If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.
~ Deborah Solomon
I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.
~ Greg Smith
I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.
~ Philipp Meyer
There's how, basically, Son Goku from 'Dragon Ball' doesn't fight for the sake of others but because he wants to fight against strong guys. So once 'Dragon Ball' got animated, at any rate, I've always been dissatisfied with the 'righteous hero'-type portrayal they gave him.
~ Akira Toriyama
The romantic image of the ancient world is very inspiring, as is nature itself, but I think the dissatisfaction with our modern world is the strongest force keeping me going.
~ Varg Vikernes
It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.
~ Tom Perrotta
year's expedition. Helaina, however, seemed quite unhappy with the topic.
~ Tracie Peterson
I was angry all the time about the future I didn't want with people I didn't like. But I didn't know what I wanted - so what else was there to do?
~ Unknown
This papaya tastes boring. I guess I normally like papaya. But this one is sort of boring all the way through. Like eating water. Boring water. I wonder when it will be sun time. Maybe I should try a different papaya after this one. But what if the next papaya is boring, too?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity (70).
~ Paul Neilan
When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.
~ Paulo Coelho