Quotes About Discontent

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

To change you have to become fed up with being who you are now.

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Estar feliz y, sin embargo, no ser feliz. Ah, pero nunca imaginé que el estar feliz incluyera ¿sabés? tanta tristeza.

All those films in which the woman doesn't get her man, those films of yearning unsatisfied, hearts unappeased. You like them; I've liked them too. But I'll tell you what: try belonging body and soul to a man who will never belong to you; see how well you like those films then. "Don't ask for the moon-we have the stars!" ... "Pardon me saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!

I'd go home to a wife whom I was not sexually enjoying.

We all know it. We all know deep down inside that this world is not what it is supposed to be. We all yearn for things to be much better.

Between the health care that we have now and the health care that we could have lies not just a gap, but a chasm. —Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, 2001 We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. —Albert Einstein

Americans sense that something is wrong with the places where we live and work and go about our daily business," wrote social critic James Howard Kunstler in 1996. "We drive up and down the gruesome, tragic suburban boulevards of commerce, and we're overwhelmed at the fantastic, awesome, stupefying ugliness of absolutely everything in sight… as though the whole thing had been designed by some diabolical force bent on making human beings miserable.

There is no more fertile ground for revolution than the educated unemployed

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

It was as if she was a wannabe Persian cat who had just tasted sour milk.

Nothing was ever where Cole wanted it to be.

F*ck you guys, I'm goin' home.

Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it.

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.