Quotes About Discontent

Thus when the ambitious man, whose slogan was Either Caesar or nothing, does not become Caesar, he is in despair over it. But this signifies something else, namely, that precisely because he did not become Caesar he now cannot bear to be himself. Consequently he is not in despair over the fact that he did not become Caesar, but he is in despair over himself for the fact that he did not become Caesar.

A tr?it întâmpl?ri destul de triste,în general lucruri care-Å£i taie cheful de p?l?vr?geal? ordinar?.Tat?l ÅŸi mama ei n-au fost fericiÅ£i împreun?.Ceea ce pe o fat? oarecare o atrage,pe ea o las? indiferent?.S-ar p?rea chiar s? nu ÅŸtie care e rolul adev?rat al unei fete.Poate c? uneori îÅŸi doreÅŸte s? nu fie fat?,ci b?iat.

when the ambitious man whose slogan is "Either Caesar or nothing" does not get to be Caesar, he despairs over it. But this also means something else: precisely because he did not get to be Caesar, he now cannot bear to be himself.

The rich are obscure to us, finding ways to be unhappy when all the normal causes of unhappiness are removed.

I learned that love is for the most part absent and, when it appears, is usually fitful, fleeting, and finally unsatisfactory. I learned that the communities men build are based on the oppression of the many by the few, and I did not understand, I still do not understand, why the many accept this oppression

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

throwing himself into a chair in a manner which implied that he would rather have flung it at the head of his host.

I heard a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules.

I treated you so mean. Like you was a servant. And all because Albert married you. And I didn't even want him for a husband,' she say. 'I never really wanted Albert for a husband. But just to choose me, you know?

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

I think I've had quite enough of other people's happiness.

Fucking pinks," she hissed to herself.

Fuck narrative elegance.

I can't say I was happy with your mother. I can't say I enjoyed almost twenty years of being judged by her and always found wanting.

Fuck politics. I just want to burn shit down.

Halfway through the televised debate I kick my boot into the screen. Even on mute I can't stand it. It feels good to smash the TV, though. I feel like I'm participating in the political system.

Nearly twice as many people hate their jobs as love their jobs.

Cuanta más desigualdad hay en una sociedad, más extendida está toda suerte de enfermedades mentales.

Show me the man who has the courage to hide his ill-humour, who bears the whole burden himself, without disturbing the peace of those around him. No: ill-humour arises from an inward consciousness of our own want of merit, from a discontent which ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity engenders. We see people happy, whom we have not made so, and cannot endure the sight.

No: ill-humour arises from an inward consciousness of our own want of merit, from a discontent which ever accompanies that envy which foolish vanity engenders.