Quotes About Discontent

I know what life is about, but what if I don't like it?

Chiara," he said, speaking very softly, "your mother is a troublemaker, a malcontent, and an agitator.

Todo es injusto! ¿A quién nos quejamos en este lugar de mierda? ¿Quién está a cargo aquí?

Una segunda evidencia es que "veía a los prevaricadores" y se contrariaba por lo que veía a su alrededor

The men drink a third beer, then a fourth, in preparation for the cold trip crosstown. "I wish I could meet a decent woman." Howard, who has learned the great secret, and who after beer, is generous: "Go to a library.

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

When we let ourselves feel the fear, the discontent, the difficulties we have always avoided, our heart softens. Just as it is a courageous act to face all the difficulties from which we have always run, it is also an act of compassion.

Their chairs were huge and soft, the kind that swivel and make squelching noises whenever you shift your behind. Aunt Isabelle and I had regular, hard-backed chairs. So at first, I didn't concentrate on what the lawyers were saying because I felt too angry about this. Why didn't we have the soft, fun, swivelling chairs?

She guessed he was past a turning point, early thirties, where he imagined he would know something with certainty, and he looked angry that his life was not unfolding in a way befitting him.

Unless you begin to see the hollowness of where you are right now, you will not begin to seek something else strongly.

People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.

For some people, a fixed state of irritation is oxygen. I understand this all too well.

But I seemed unable to do anything that pleased anyone and that included me, my own self, though at that time I did not know that myself constituted such a thing as existence

Damned Weyland-Yutani piece of crap," she said.

The miser who clings to his money and will not give up any of it because of the pleasure which its possession affords him cannot have any of the material comforts of life. He lives in continual want and discomfort in spite of all his wealth.

Life was generous: it gave a man a thousand things to be pissed off about.

Si quieren ser albañiles, decidles que arquitectos, y si arquitectos que ministros de la vivienda. No permitáis nunca que se cumpla el afán, no pongáis los sueños al alcance de los niños para que nunca sean tan miserables como vosotros...

There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.

I do know that in every direction I find a growing discontent with the President's lack of leadership," Ickes wrote in his diary. "He still has the country if he will take it and lead it. But he won't have it very much longer unless he does something.

The piercing angst of disappointment in everything on this side of eternity creates a discontent with this world and pushes us to long for God Himself—and for the place where we will finally walk in the garden with Him again.

How odd that people could be so ugly, not particularly because of appearence, but because of the atmosphere of judgemental bad temper and discontent they carried around with them.

Sometimes that made me feel kind of tired. It was like I kept buying these things to be cool, but cool was always flying just ahead of me, and I could never exactly catch up to it. I felt like I'd been running toward it for a long time.

Envy first brings depression: "My life isn't as good as yours." Then comes offense: "Why should you have what I don't have?" Which degrades into hatred.

Western though is fixated on the gap between what is and what ought to be.