Quotes About Discontent

Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent? And isn't discontent the lever of change?

He wants to feel good, he always used to feel good at every turning of the year, every vacation or end of vacation, every new sheet on the calendar: but his adult life has proved to have no seasons, only changes of weather, and the older he gets, the less weather interests him. The house next to his old house still has the FOR SALE sign up. He tries his front door

Those born rich are harder to please than those born poor.

He slouches down and in answer to Springer says, "Things go bad. Food goes bad, people go bad, maybe a whole country goes bad. The blacks now have more than ever, but it feels like less, maybe. We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything.

Sweetie, the bluebird has flown. We're too young to sit around the rest of our lives waiting for it to fly back in the window. It won't. It can't fly backwards.' He was using his hands again in that disagreeable stagey way, and Ruth was angered by the flicker of conceit in his expression when he struck upon the image of the bluebird fying backwards - a piece of animation on the screen of his face.

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

The more you sit back and look at your life, the more it begins to depress you.

God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-moment dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians who have come to terms with their inadequacies, fears, and failures. Believers who have become discontent with 'surviving' and have taken the time to investigate everything God has to offer in this life.

Nothings ever right...in a teenagers life...

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Als leven een baan is, wilde ik ontslag nemen. Maar ik kon het kantoor niet vinden dat over ontslagaanvragen ging.

Il vento trascina lontano tutto ciò che credevo di volere. Sono un disgraziato a spasso nella vita.

If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way - a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good - then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.

I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy.

The Playwright was excited in the way a child is excited on Christmas morning. I liked this. Most people didn't get excited about anything other than their own discontent.

Everyone is sick with his existence.

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

We have created a world we don't like, don't understand and don't trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.