Quotes About Discontent

I hate it!" he said. "I don't want to be human anymore." "Neither do I," she said. "It's not a good place to be.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

That's the trouble. I would be digging a ditch. They would say, That's no place for a man like you. Come up to the office. So I would be an overseer, and they would say That's no place for a man like you: Come into the building. Later they would say This is no job for a man like you, come higher up; and I would quit, and go and start digging a ditch somewhere else. You see?

Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

It is when the rich and well-educated and highly-privileged classes neglect their duties, when they neglect to study the interests, and conciliate the affections, and instruct the opinions, and champion the rights of the people, that the latter become discontented and turbulent, and fall into the hands of demagogues: the demagogue always steps in, where the patriot is wanting.

curmudgeonliness

If this is the ride of my life, I want a refund.

Everything in Jordan bothered me. My family, the government, the bad way the Jordanians treated us.

I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

En vahimi, birçoklar?n?n mutluluktan tam da bunu ummas?d?r: Kesintisiz ho?luk hali, daimi ne?e, keyifler hep yerinde olsun ve bol e?lence. Ne var ki mutlulu?u bir tür daimi zevkte aramak, mutsuz olman?n en emin yoludur. ... ?nsanlar?n hayatlar?nda dair huzursuzluk duymalar? için bir ?eyin onlar? ac?tmas? gerekir: ??te bunu mutsuzlu?a borçluyuzdur.

Ça vous plaît ? – C'est comme tout. Beaucoup trop payé pour ce que je fais, mais pas assez pour ce que je m'emmerde.

By the end of the third day, I hated it. I hated it with all my heart. Nothing was going to change. The only thing I was learning was that boredom can hurt like physical pain, like wearing an iron hat, like sandpaper clothes, like being crushed under a big stone.

los envidiosos te envidian hasta la miseria.

So what we are right now is a pair of dickweeds in a hotel room in Sydney. My life is royally fucked up right now and from where I'm sitting, your life is even bloody worse.

Poverty breeds prejudice, hatreds, discontent,

This site sucks garbage bags full of dicks.

envy and jealousy because he

We're just two punks, Frank. God kissed us on the brow that night. He gave us all that two people can ever have and we just weren't the kind that could have it. [I]t's a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That's what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords.

To use Freud's famous phrase, the civilized are, therefore, the discontent. We do not become losers in civilization but become civilized as losers. The collective result of this ineradicable sense of failure is that civilizations take on the spirit of resentment. Acutely sensitive to an imagined audience, they are easily offended by other civilizations.

Fine's a town I don't even visit anymore.

I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling—it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? I don't want to have the same vocabulary I've always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating and powerful.

I hate that I have to spend half my life doing a job I hate for a boss I can't stand.' 'Haha, yeah, we live in a society.' 'The point isn't that we live in it, but that we built it. And we could just have easily built it differently.

Hell hath no fury like a stakeholder scorned.