Quotes About Discontent

In Geneva, Olivier Bonneville was becoming frustrated.

As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.

In risposta alla prospettiva di una gratificazione e un accudimento straordinari, la mia insaziabile parte infantile non farà che accrescere la soglia di soddisfazione fino a conseguire di nuovo la sua omeostasi di grave insoddisfazione.

He was determined to take the first flight out, wherever it went. Anywhere had to be better than this.

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

reservation, n. There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.

It just makes me mad. All the stupid arbitrary shit. It makes you want to overthrow the world. On a daily basis.

Really, he could be anywhere now, because he wants to be nowhere.

Cooper's loathing of everyone else—his parents, the people in his town, the men he chats with—is surpassed only by his loathing of himself.

But there was also something swimming, an idea, a dream of what we were striving for and what it would look like when we got there. Then we got there, and it didn't look the same at all, somehow...Are all human beings malcontents?

My room is cheerfully located between the sixth-floor elevators. The springs of my bed wheeze. The elevator dings. The ice machine right outside my door rumbles forth its icy bounty, a steady tattoo that beats "Stay up! Stay up!" I am in a canvas that Edward Hopper never felt bummed out enough to paint.

Wants to set the world on fire, and if it can't happen by tomorrow morning at nine a.m., then life's just unfair and hardly worth living.

To say she was bitter fell a wee bit short, like calling sulfuric acid tangy.

It was not a jolly place at all for a sun-loving soul

Me temo que no es tan sencillo. Haces demasiado caso de tu propio sentimentalismo y de tu descontento por no ser capaz de morir.

Archie's marriage felt like buying a pair of shoes, taking them home, and finding they don't fit.

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

So Mrs. Turner frowned most of the time. She had so much to disapprove of.

The Internet is an actual dumpster fire.

The American people are tired of the D.C. way.

Everybody in America is angry about something.

I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.

Marriage," said Butscha, "is like a lawsuit; there's always one side discontented. If one dupes the other, certainly half the husbands in the world are playing a comedy at the expense of the other half." "From which you conclude, Sieur Butscha?" inquired Modeste. "To pay the utmost attention to the manoeuvres of the enemy," answered the clerk.

People suffer in their chests," said Rogron, who liked to hear himself harangue, "or they have toothache, headache, pains in their feet or stomach, but no one has pains everywhere. What do you mean by everywhere? I can tell you; 'everywhere' means nowhere. Don't you know what you are doing? — you are complaining for complaining's sake.