Quotes About Discontent

I can't pretend to being particularly happy about Jeremy Corbyn being leader of the Labour party.

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

I was terrible at desk jobs.

Everyone wants, wants, wants... and when they have, they feel desperate.

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

In 'Taxi,' I kept doing the same scene for three years. I was underused.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

A lot of what you have seen with third-party groups - like the Tea Party - these folks are conservative, and they are fed up with people in Washington who are not working for them but against them.

Jake didn't like this turn

we are naturally inclined to search for happiness, but he argues that nature has destined us never to find it. We will always be somewhat discontented, and that very discontent is good for us by spurring on our energies and our creativity.

There's something wrong… There's something wrong with almost everything.

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy.

As he went out into the world, writes Iremashvili, he took with him "a grim and bitter hatred against the school administration, the bourgeoisie, and all that existed in the country and represented tsarism.

It was one of those situations where you just say fuck it. Fuck the job, fuck management.

and all I have to remark is, damn the pies!

He's here but he's not here. He rejects the here, is unhappy with it, wants to be farther up the trail but when he gets there will be just as unhappy because then it will be here.

He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do.

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

Chances are you have a job. Chances are your job sucks. But you've learned a few things from this job, mainly, YOU DON'T LIKE BEING AN EMPLOYEE!

The problem was that the rich man was not rich yet, and the poor man was not yet poor.

I was soon restless and irritable. I felt useless and unwanted.

Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life — the secret of all the unrest and discontent that is seething in the world.

you know you have the very same idea of sacredness of assumed responsibilities yourself. And you are right. Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life — the secret of all the unrest and discontent that is seething in the world.