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Quotes About Discontent

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
~ Dorothy Parker
God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...
~ Douglas Wilson
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
~ Ernest Renan
I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.
~ David Levithan
Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.
~ Mike Donehey
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.
~ Bertolt Brecht
I'm a little angry in life.
~ Vincent Cassel
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
~ Hermann Hesse
I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.
~ Lee Child, Persuader
I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
~ Sylvia Plath
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
~ Charles Dickens
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
~ Aaron Sorkin
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
~ Andre Gide
I just can't get used to life.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you.
~ Jill Shalvis
The malcontent appeared to be offended. "Oh," he shouted at the assemblage, "this is the deal, is it?
~ Jim Bishop
Helping people rocked. This kind of stuff? Sucked hairy donkey balls
~ Jo Davis
Fugi. De repente, eu vi que não podia mais, me governou um desgosto.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
~ Joan Chen
What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
~ Joan Miro
The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!
~ Joanne Greenberg
So this was how he lived now, getting jittery because a bus pulled up near. Well, he was not going on like that. It was not good enough. The one person who could help him had not appeared. He probably never would. But there must be some other way. He knew that there was another way although for the moment he couldn't think what it was. Soon it would come back to him, in a minute he would remember the way out, the way where he was going.
~ Anna Kavan
Es ist mir ohnehin zutiefst unverständlich, was verheiratete oder glücklich liebende Leute auf einem Tanzfest oder in einer Diskothek suchen, wo der ganze Reiz solcher Veranstaltungen doch ausschließlich darin besteht, daß man nicht weiß, in wessen Gesellschaft man sie verlassen wird oder ob die Jagd ergebnislos bleibt.
~ Anna Seghers
I was fifteen years old when I began to hate people.
~ Anne Moody