Quotes About Discontent

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Life has been so meagre, so insipid, so intolerably dull to eager and high-spirited souls!

how often life was about not wanting to be doing what it was you were supposed to be doing.

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another...

S.W.I.N.E - Students wildly indignant about nearly everything

even if the whole of the man-made world could, through relentless effort and sacrifice, be modelled to rival St Mark's Square, even if we could spend the rest of our lives in the Villa Rotonda or the Glass House, we would still often be in a bad mood. 7.

for lack of what is found there.

He once fantasized that his worries would be stilled if he lived elsewhere, if he attained a few professional goals, if he had a family. But nothing has ever made a difference. He is, he can see, anxious to the core, in his most basic make-up: a frightened, ill-adjusted creature.

Discontent is the initial motivation to becoming content. Let restlessness propel you to your right place. Your experience of "not it" amplifies your intention to find "it," and you surely will.

It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.

I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.

I certainly didn't feel like writing anymore. I couldn't explain why, but the only emotion that I could arouse were feelings of anger and after staying mad all day and half the night, I was just plain tired. Mad at what? Just about everything, for just about everything was done wrong or it wasn't done perfectly. Since nothing but perfection was acceptable, I stayed mad.

I hate the past and for that matter the present

Happiness is the exception-joy a rarity-the normal feeling most human beings have is discontent or longing... maybe there's an evolutionary purpose.

Diejenigen, die es "nie zu etwas brachten" (...), hätten es auch überall sonst nie zu etwas gebracht. Es wäre einfach nur lustvoller, es in Paris nie zu etwas zu bringen.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Let your inner sunshine overcome the passing haze of discontent.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

People who go out and try to be a rebel at night, Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.

Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.