Quotes About Discontent

The political presence of the masses always culminates in a hellish apocalypse.

Stupidity is the fuel of revolutions.

La inflación trepó en 1967 al 41%. Y mientras que en la gestión de Alessandri el 50% de las inversiones eran hechas por el Estado, ya por 1966 las mismas ascendían al 80%. Crecía el desempleo, las acciones en la bolsa se desplomaban y comenzaba a aflorar un descontento que abarcaba a todas las clases sociales.

If there was one thing she knew by then, by age twenty-two, it was that she had to get far away and stay away. Here in his world she was trapped in an intolerable corner, which seemed to grow tighter and tighter each year. And now no place in America felt right.

no matter how much Theo achieves and acquires and out-dazzles everyone else, she never seems content. She's taught you that people who shine more lavishly that everyone else seem to be penalized by discontent, as if they're being punished for craving a brighter life. I've been knocked down so many times I can't remember the number plates, she said once.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

But in the unconscious the repressed dreams of omnipotent indulgence in pleasure persist, as the nucleus of man's universal neurosis and his restless discontent, the cor irrequietum of St. Augustine. The infantile conflict between actual impotence and dreams of omnipotence is also the basic theme of the universal history of mankind. And in both conflicts—in the history of the individual and the history of the race—the stakes are the meaning of love.

Selim, insan?n yarat?c? hayal gücünü öldürüyordu. Kambur duru?u, da??n?k saçlar? ve ütüsüz elbisesiyle Selim, insan? can s?k?nt?s? ve ümitsizli?e sürüklüyordu. ?nsan ona bak?nca, gerçi bir süre kendinden memnun oluyordu; fakat sonunda can? s?k?l?yordu.

Tu?rul, kendilerinin bir ?eye kar?? olduklar?m, bu amaçla bir parti kurman?n zor olaca??n? belirtmeye çal??t?. "Bir ?eyden yana de?iliz ki Hayri," dedi hüzünle, "Bir parti kural?m." ?oför Hayri ?iddetle içini çekti: "Ah bir olabilseydik a?abeyci?im, biz de bir ?eyden yana olabilseydik." Tu?rul, "Ya da bir ?eyler bizden yana olsayd?," diye tamamlad?.

Fakat, mesele bu de?ildi; mesele, bir ?eyleri, s?cak bir çorban?n kokusunu duyar gibi hissedebilmekti. Bense bunu hiç becerememi?tim. Ne tabiat?, ne insanlar?, ne de olup bitenleri hiç sevmemi?tim; kendimi bile, kendi yapt?klar?m? bile.

Siyah çerçeveli ciddi bir ilân: bu kitap ne ciddi kavgalar?n, ne büyük ve yayg?n s?k?nt?lar?n, ne de ezilen insanlar?n roman?d?r; bu kitap, mustarip bir ruhun iç çeki?lerinin roman?d?r. Sizlere hizmetten ?eref duyan yay?nevimiz iftiharla sunar: Tutunamayanlar.

Once more I struck out into the ocean of space, heading for another near star. Once more I was disappointed.

had to demand everything out of my new surroundings, and I felt like I'd been cheated.

Whenever I let the slightest thing make me forget myself, I can't help but be disappointed

Ach, ?ycie ludzkie jest zbyt ?a?osne! Rzeczywisto??, w której wszyscy my?l?, ?e lepiej by?oby si? nie urodzi?. I tak codziennie, od rana do wieczora, jedynie na co? czekam. To zbyt ?a?osne. Ach, jak?e chcia?abym si? cieszy?, ?e si? urodzi?am, cieszy? si? z ?ycia, z ludzi, z tego ?wiata!

Looking for justice is actually a sign that we have been diverted from our devotion to Him. Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it. If we look for justice, we will only begin to complain and to indulge ourselves in the discontent of self-pity, as if to say, "Why should I be treated like this?

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

Well, hell.

We were looking, looking, always looking for something. That's what we've been doing all night tonight. Going from one place to another, looking. What are we looking for? Go home, Eddie, go to bed. I'll take Arnold home, explain to everybody he was drunk, he didn't mean anything.

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

I wish Darcangelo were here. He'd fucking hate this.

Avec l'argent, nul n'est à l'aise : ceux qui croient le détester l'idolâtrent en secret. Ceux qui l'idolâtrent le surestiment. Ceux qui feignent de le mépriser se mentent à eux-mêmes. Engouement

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

Have the military wing create as much discontent and deprivation as possible, the more unemployment the better. Then have your political wing feed off the people's discontent.