Quotes About Discontent

he was hungry; and he was cross with his wife, who had said in her clear ringing voice, 'I will tell you what, Maturin, if this baby of ours has anything like the discontented, bilious, liverish expression you have brought down from town, it shall be changed out of hand for something more cheerful from the Foundling Hospital.

It must be a weary life, being in a permanent state of rage or at least at half-cock.

But it did not much care for hunting, and then like so many geldings it spent much of its time mourning for its lost stones: a discontented horse.

Would you expect a mutiny?' 'Mutiny in the sense of outright revolt and refusal of command? No. But from some of the people I expect muttering, discontent, ill-will; and nothing makes work slower or more inefficient or more unsafe than ill-will and its perpetual quarrels.

before there can be change there must be discontent.

Gringo, she could have made you happy!" "I would have made my wife very unhappy.

Life is a fast, dizzing game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it.

suddenly, for no reason, I get into the shower and burst into tears. I can cry there because no one can hear my sobs or ask me the question I hate most: "Are you all right?" Yes, why shouldn't I be? Is there anything wrong with my life? No, nothing. Only the nights that fill me with dread. The days I can't get excited about. The happy images from the past and the things that could have been but weren't. The desire for adventure never fulfilled.

There's something very wrong with this world, and it isn't just the wars going on in Asia or the Middle East.

I don't know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid.

Not getting what you want. Getting what you do not want. This is the root of all suffering. ~ Pema Chodron

A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out.

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

Envy-Thy art blindness

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

He seemed a man who had looked at life and life had looked back at him, and neither had been satisfied by what they had seen.

Help me. But no one had. And the Bonhams had a nice big house and drove a Bentley. Sometimes Archer just wanted to shoot life right in the face.

I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.

One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he's really lonely for