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Quotes About Dissatisfaction

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
~ Heraclitus
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
~ Baltasar Gracian
I loathe the very thought of airports and also airlines taking as much from you as possible and giving very little back.
~ Keith Allen
Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.
~ Don DeLillo
The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.
~ Don DeLillo
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
~ Don DeLillo
Murray said, "I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.
~ Don DeLillo
Alfonse invested everything he did with a sense of all-consuming purpose. He knew four languages, had photographic memory, did complex mathematics in his head. He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
~ Unknown
I know what life is about, but what if I don't like it?
~ Donald Miller
Doing Poetry Poem, you sonofabitch, it's bad enough that I embarrass myself working so hard to get it right even a little, and that little grudging and awkward. But it's afterwards I resent, when the sweet sure should hold me like a trout in the bright summer stream. There should be at least briefly access to your glamour and tenderness. But there's always this same old dissatisfaction instead.
~ Jack Gilbert
The society that denies its poverty and injustice has lost a part of its freedom as well. If we deny our dissatisfaction, our anger, our pain, our ambition, we will suffer. If we deny our values, our beliefs, our longings, or our goodness, we will suffer.
~ Jack Kornfield
We should be dissatisfied with the stale, routine way we've been worshiping and seek His presence. We should build the temple and build a relationship with Him that's genuine and real.
~ Lynn Austin
We do not need to have a picture of what a true world would be like in order to feel that there is something radically wrong with the world that exists.
~ Unknown
We need no promise of a happy ending to justify our rejection of a world we feel to be wrong.
~ Unknown
And Clark clearly knew and disapproved of El Nido. (A nido could be a nest, a den, a hole, a haunt.)
~ John Irving
The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.
~ Lawrence M. Miller
Joan is altijd ontevreden en ze rust niet voordat een ander dat ook is. Het enige waar zij blij van wordt is andere mensen net zo ongelukkig maken als zij. Ze wil graag gezelschap in die ongelukkige ontevredenheid van haar.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
they imagine that the life they are obliged to lead is not that for which they are really fitted, and they bring to their regular occupations either a fantastic indifference or a sustained and lofty application, scornful, bitter, and conscientious.
~ Marcel Proust
Jael feared it was true, that she was shallow, dissolute. Trendy.
~ John Sandford
Samuel smiled at him. "They say man lived in trees one time. Somebody had to get dissatisfied with a high limb or your feet would not be touching flat ground now.
~ John Steinbeck
But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
The real talents are those who just remain contented with what they get ,but always dissatisfied with what they give back to the society.
~ Anuj Somany
Fridge full of food - Nothing to eat. Wardrobe full of clothes - Nothing to wear. Internet full of sites - only on Facebook.
~ Unknown
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove
~ Ashleigh Brilliant