Quotes About Discontent

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

That's how I'm feeling about everything these days: ugh. No.

It's kind of silly to feel so disappointed about something you only just realized you wanted.

Parece una tontería estar tan decepcionada por algo que sólo acabas de darte cuenta de que querías, ¿no? • capítulo 49, pág. 277

For a man who could have anything he wanted... why do I have the sense that you rarely get what you want?

I find that the same Hebrew word which signifies to lodge, to abide, signifies to murmur. They use one word for both, for murmuring is a disorder that lodges in men; where it gets in once it lodges, abides and continues, and therefore, that we may dislodge it and get it out, we will labor to show what are the further reasonings of a discontented heart.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Lieber Stephan, sagte Fabian leise, es ist rührend, wie du dich um mich bemühst. Aber ich bin nicht unglücklicher als unsere Zeit. Willst du mich glücklicher machen, als sie es ist? Und wenn du mir einen Direktorposten, eine Million Dollar oder eine anständige Frau, die ich lieben könnte, verschaffst oder alle drei Dinge zusammen, es wird dir nicht gelingen.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Extraordinary creatures you young people are, altogether. The past you hate, the present you despise, and the future is a matter of indifference. How do you suppose that can lead to any good end?

when I hear the word 'peace-time,' it goes to my head: and if it really came, I think I would do some unimaginable thing—something, you know, that it's worth having lain here in the muck for. But I can't even imagine anything. All I do know is that this business about professions and studies and salaries and so on—it makes me sick, it is and always was disgusting.

Ko visp?r noz?m? - kr?pt? [..] Kr?pt - cik vulg?rs v?rds, ar ko apz?m?t smalk?ko, gal?jo neapmierin?t?bu, mekl?jumus p?c kaut k? vair?k, arvien vair?k...

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

She had been married to a man who had never bored her and these people bored her very much

That's the way our friends the anarchists talk. Whenever things get really bad they want to set fire to something and to die.

You can tell them," Bill said. "They get this sort of fat married look. They're done for.

Hello, you've reached the winter of our discontent.

Oh, I'm so sick and tired of pretending this is a home! You won't help me! You won't put yourself out the least bit! You don't know how to act in a home! You don't really want one! You never wanted one - never since the day we were married! You should have remained a bachelor and lived in second-rate hotels and entertained your friends in barrooms!