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Quotes About Dissatisfaction

Morning, noon & bloody night, Seven sodding days a week, I slave at filthy WORK, that might Be done by any book-drunk freak. This goes on until I kick the bucket. FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT
~ Philip Larkin
But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.
~ Philip Pullman
He has outlived dissatisfaction. This is what remains after the passing of everything, the disciplined sadness of stoicism. This is the cooling. For so long it's so hot, everything in life is so intense, and then little by little it goes away, and then comes the cooling, and then comes the ashes.
~ Philip Roth
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship, I say. Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.
~ David Levithan
I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.
~ David Levithan
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone, Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life.A decision to settle for something that's okay. Because you don;t know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better even if you know he won't change.
~ David Levithan
There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.
~ David Levithan
antsy, adj. I swore I would never take you to the opera again.
~ David Levithan
Sexual dissatisfaction is linked with marital unhappiness, which is a good predictor of divorce.
~ David M. Buss
Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.
~ Dean Cavanagh
Archie's marriage felt like buying a pair of shoes, taking them home and finding they don't fit. For the sake of appearances, he put up with them
~ Zadie Smith
Some people find fault like there is a reward for it
~ Zig Ziglar
So Mrs. Turner frowned most of the time. She had so much to disapprove of.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
~ Rachel Ward
Why is dissatisfaction taken to be a mark of failing powers and patience, when it might just as easily be understood as a proper judgment on a foolish world?
~ Howard Jacobson
I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.
~ Hugh Laurie
There is no hiding the fact that in some ways I am dissatisfied with God.
~ Unknown
Man after the second half of the twentieth century is frustrated. You know that the foundation of all subversiveness is laid on frustration and this frustration keeps finding ways to subversive activities. And you also know that an uncert...ain present has made man pessimistic about future... therefore he runs after anything that glitters, be it fire
~ Unknown
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
~ Colin Powell
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
~ Cormac McCarthy
So it's hardly surprising that Martha bitched up a storm
~ Unknown
A ministry that doesn't have it simply follows the formula they used the year before and the year before that. People are bored, uninspired, and complacent. When a church doesn't have it, the staff is simply doing a job, drawing a paycheck, passing time. They're territorial. Jealous. Dissatisfied. Discontented. Even bitter.
~ Craig Groeschel
abundance proffered too soon led to lassitude and indolence, a wandering dissatisfaction.
~ Unknown
She had sunk her whole personality to be Arnold's wife, but even that was not enough, he was still unsatisfied …
~ D.E. Stevenson