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Quotes About Discontent

I hear women say this. Instead women would often complain: He doesn't listen; he is inattentive; he is no longer romantic; he doesn't complement me; he is less affectionate; or he is self-centered. When considering divorce, a woman would say, "I give and give, but I don't get back. I have nothing left to give." This is a far cry from a man's basic frustration that his wife is just not happy and as a result he feels like giving up.
~ John Gray
Why couldn't he spend a few months fishing for trout in shallow mountain streams instead of sitting through dull classes, or driving to Whitfield for another depressing visit, or worrying about which legal hijinks Burch Dunlap might be cooking
~ John Grisham
is this?" Wally growled angrily. "Why is everybody
~ John Grisham
Within a year, the cardinal's estimates were shown to be woefully inadequate, and Parois was up in arms.
~ John Guy
you will understand why I say to you: sell the Hall unseen, burn it to the ground and plough the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there.
~ Unknown
The Sky Lounge is not aspirational. It is desperational.
~ John Hodgman
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
Frotters!" Herr Faber shouted. "Thieving frotters everywhere I turn!
~ John Irving
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.
~ John Keats
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses
~ John Keats
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Being fed up of someone can be even worse than disliking them.
~ Unknown
There's a difference between being fed up & being just flat out annoyed.
~ Unknown
I'm so fed up with being taken for granted...
~ Unknown
Tired of being angry , tired of being fed up and disappointed,
~ Unknown
Had one of them days where I've actually had beyound enough. Fed up of being unappreciated.
~ Unknown
What disappoints us most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be.
~ Unknown
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever
~ Unknown
Life is so confusing, what we want we don't get, what we get we are not satisfied with, what we expect never happens and what we hate generally repeats!
~ Unknown
The feelings that stirred in me at night seemed strangely distant from those serving girls with their lowered eyes and obedience. I watched a boy fumbling at a girl's dress, the dull look on her face as she poured his wine. I did not wish for such a thing.
~ Madeline Miller
I am desperate for change, endlessly seeking novelty, where i can find it.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
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
I am desperate for change, endlessly seeking novelty, wherever I can find it.
~ Maggie O'Farrell