Quotes About Discontent

As I get older I tend to rail against the world more and more.

I am furious about everything.

I think I've developed a sort of ADD for geography now. When I've been in a country for too long, I'm like, 'I think it's time to leave.' I don't know what that's going to do to me in later life.

After years of globalisation, disaffected populations have lost confidence that the system is fair.

For the minimum-wager with Caligulan needs, the glory days are soon over.

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

I've worked with lots of actors who sit at home for years waiting to get a job, then as soon as they do, they want to go home.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it's always a good deal different than you expect it.

I don't remember my 20s as a good place.

Las delicias de este mundo ya he gozado, Los días de mi juventud hace tanto, ¡tanto!, que se desvanecieron, Abril y Mayo y Julio están lejanos, ¡Ya nada soy, ya nada me complace!

Read from a distant star the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps tempt one to conclude that the earth is the ascetic planet par excellence, a nook of discontented, arrogant, and repulsive creatures who could not get rid of a deep displeasure with themselves, with the earth, with all life and who caused themselves as much pain as possible out of pleasure in causing pain:?probably their only pleasure.

As for civilization, it stinks.

Discontent," Father Maturin said, enunciating the word with a strange vigor and looking straight at Elizabeth, "may be God's catapult, His way of saying: 'Go and try yourself now.

One of my earliest political memories was watching the then-Labour Home Secretary Merlyn Rees on television during the Winter of Discontent telling the nation that the lights were, literally, about to go out.

Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.