Quotes About Discontent

No wonder he pissed on the carpet and ate the sofa. This wasn't the life he'd asked for.

Reading is added to that great pile of things—work, love, sexual prowess, the words they didn't say when they really needed to say them—that they are bound to feel a bit dissatisfied about.

I used to sit with the bedside lamp on, reading for about two hours after Andrea had gone to sleep, until my eyes were dry and sore, always seeking and never quite finding, but with that feeling of being tantalizingly close.

If we once manufactured the consent of the population for everything from the Vietnam War to the bombing of Kosovo to the occupation of Iraq, we're now manufacturing discontent . It's the only way to prevent a popular uprising.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common - discontent.

Kasno je, sje?anja, uzalud se javljate, beskorisne su vaše nemo?ne utjehe i podsje?anja na ono što je moglo da bude, jer što nije bilo, nije ni moglo da bude. A uvijek izgleda lijepo ono što se nije ostvarilo. Vi ste varka koja ra?a nezadovoljstvo, varka koju ne mogu i ne želim da otjeram jer me razoružava i tihom tugom brani od patnje.

Usamljenost ra?a misao, misao nezadovoljstvo, nezadovoljstvo pobunu. Ja sam bio daleko od misli na pobunu: samo sam lijeno sanjario.

And what never happened always seems beautiful. You are a deception that gives birth to discontent, a deception that I cannot and do not wish to drive away, since it disarms me and protects me from suffering with a quiet grief.

Šta to tražimo u tu?oj zemlji, osim svoje i tu?e nesre?e.

Usamljenost ra?a misao, misao nezadovoljstvo, nezadovoljstvo pobunu.

This was the world they were meant to enter: a world of fuckers.

Now she felt as if she were dully humming with an unpleasant, low-grade drunkenness.

the money that was scattered around me like an uninteresting garnish.

Oh, Christ. That's exactly the type of thing that warrants a journal burning.

This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything—a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness—only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted.

My ideal community? Anywhere but here.

Los rumores de disconformidad son como estas canciones en la radio que siempre llegan a número uno. Te aprendes la melodía al minuto uno y te empiezan a aburrir al minuto dos.

Your wife is a real drag. How happy you'll be when you're on your own.

I'm not happy," she whispered. "I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

Moi je vole, je plane, tandis qu'il y a pleins de gens qui sont morts de l'interieur. […] L'argent qu'ils gagnent, ils le dépensent dans une télévision neuve, alors que l'ancienne marche encore, dans une nouvelle voiture, parce que la précédente est trop vielle, ou dans des vacances pour se distraire et oublier cet affreux boulot qu'ils sont obligés de faire parce qu'ils ont besoin de cet argent…

I was, as you may have guessed, born tired and filled with bile. I

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bewildered and betrayed.

Was there a missing component in all human beings? The rural masses seeking the metropolis; the urban young fleeing to the woods. Women pretending to be men; men becoming more like women; everyone aping divinity in his desperation to escape creaturehood?