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Quotes About Discontent

M? tulbur? atât de tare, încât nu îmi voi mai g?si niciodat? locul.
~ Andrew Marvell
My face went through several contortions before finally settling on unhappiness. I didn't like my hand exploding. "What? Why?
~ Andrew Rowe
Czu?em si? jak wypchany czym? gorszym ni? trociny.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!
~ Angela Carter
It seemed to her that the dullness and the boredom of her childhood, her youth, were stored here in the room under the worn dusty red rugs, in the bloated brassware, amongst the dried grasses in the swollen vases, behind the yellowed photographs in the oval frames-everything, everything that she had so hated as a child and that was still preserved here as if this were the storeroom of some dull, uninviting provincial museum.
~ Anita Desai
I'd like to know what you want out of life." "I don't know what I want anymore." I toyed with the delicate lace on my pillowcase, wishing that lovely things didn't have to be so fragile.
~ Anita Higman
The rum and Coke tastes just awful. He wishes he had Susan's plain Coke.
~ Ann Beattie
Holly hadn't liked Lizzie Redhead. Somebody else with doting parents and a comfortable life, who'd felt the need to make life difficult for other people.
~ Ann Cleeves
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
~ David Brainerd
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
~ Noam Chomsky
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
~ Zebulon Pike
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
~ Joseph de Maistre
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
~ Anna Freud
For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.
~ Mona Eltahawy
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
~ Ram Dass
I disliked everything about the '60s.
~ William Bratton
I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent by building a thing that most people want but can never have.
~ Hank Green
There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.
~ John McAfee
What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.
~ Jay Electronica
I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.
~ Lusia Strus
What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.
~ Cecil B. DeMille
Bobby Lee's actions and his dealings with Bob Arum have convinced me that I am not being treated fairly by Bobby Lee.
~ Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.
~ Mal Peet
slept too long. And I don't much like the world I woke up to.
~ Robert Charles Wilson