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Quotes About Dissatisfaction

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.
~ Shinjo Ito
When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.
~ Mark E. Smith
Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.
~ Mike Bond, The Last Savanna
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.
~ Sigmar Gabriel
The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it.
~ Neil Young
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
~ William Hazlitt
Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one is content.
~ Myron Allen
Though some precious souls, that have closed with Christ, and embraced the gospel, be not at present brought to rest in their own consciences, but continue for a while under some dissatisfactions and troubles in their own spirits; yet even then they have peace of conscience in a threefold respect. In precio, in promisso, in semine—in what purchases it, in the promise, and in the germ.
~ William Gurnall
Whatever they had together, it was collapsing under its own weight. He could see the signs. Her dissatisfaction was showing, like a slip beneath the hem of a crisply pleated skirt, and it ruined the whole effect.
~ William Lashner
Could there be anything more demoralizing than having to wake up in the morning five out of seven days of one's adult life to perform a task that one secretly believed did not need to be performed
~ David Graeber
I was once again doing something I didn't want to do, and once again I didn't know why. I was leaving the beach to drive back "home" where it was cold and wet. While the mountainous city of Asheville was certainly a beautiful place, I felt better near the ocean. I'm not saying the ocean is better than mountains, fields, cities, rivers, or anywhere else; the ocean was simply my preference.
~ David Gross
Everything is bullshit! he thought. Why did I hire these people? It shouldn't have been this big. This was too many people, too much money. It should have been just me and Tom and a small team of people with a common goal. It should have been like the way it was when we weren't biz guys. We were just gamers.
~ David Kushner
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
The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
~ Alain de Botton
I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
~ Clarence Day
Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.
~ Max Lucado
I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
~ R. Lee Ermey
I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.
~ Christopher Walken
I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.
~ Joe Budden
What happens when perfection isn't good enough?
~ Scott Westerfeld
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
~ Jack Vance
What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself
~ Gautama Buddha