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Quotes About Discontent

Both objectively and subjectively speaking, I'm sick of myself. I'm sick of everything, and of everything about everything.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Every day I'm mistreated by Matter.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I want to be exactly like what I wanted to be and am not.
~ Fernando Pessoa
everything is absurd.1 man spends his life earning money which he then saves even though he has no children 2 leave it 2. another puts all his efforts into becoming famous so that he'll b remembered once dead, yet he doesn't believe in a survival of the soul that would give him knowledge of that fame. yet another wears himself out looking 4 things he doesn't even like.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Bastaba con mirarle la cara, agónica y miope, para comprender que a partir del primer día de la creación todo habían sido ya disgustos para él.
~ Fernando Savater
Nothing is like it used to be, lady," he said. "The world is almost rotten.
~ Flannery O'Connor
All day Joy sat on her neck in a deep chair, reading. Sometimes she went for walks but she didn't like dogs or cats or birds or flowers or nature or nice young men. She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
~ Flannery O'Connor
He seemed to be a young man but he had a look of composed dissatisfaction as if he understood life thoroughly.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Uostalom, ništa i ne vredi tražiti; sve je laž! Svaki osmejak skriva zevanje od dosade, svaka radost neko prokletstvo, svako uživanje odvratnost prema njemu samom, a i najbolji poljupci samo vam ostavljaju neku neostvarljivu želju za kakvom višom nasladom.
~ Flaubert Gustave Flaubert
I'm out of the Republican Party. I'm fed up.
~ Richard Painter
This world is always fed up with politicians.
~ Fabio Lanzoni
I'm fed up with being bossed around.
~ David Hockney
I know many Canadians are fed up with the traditional way of doing politics.
~ Maxime Bernier
I'm not someone who feels settled.
~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I can never be in the same place for too long. It feels like the world is caving in.
~ Anushka Sharma
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
~ Hannah Arendt
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
~ Ronald Firbank
I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.
~ W. C. Fields
I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
~ Maurice Sendak
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
~ David Guterson
I think these are terrible times to be anything in.
~ Swoosie Kurtz
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
~ Mark Haddon
Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
~ Ann Beattie
I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
~ Patrick deWitt