Quotes About Discontent

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

School is about creating loyalty to certain goals and habits, a vision of life, support for a class structure, an intricate system of human relationships cleverly designed to manufacture the continuous low level of discontent upon which mass production and finance rely.

Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.

Being messy and unable to do anything about it appalled her.

There were millions of Earth men and women who bought the Earth cultures big lies, and they died just as unhappy as you are now. And I suggest to you that it's a foolish thing.

I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!

I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!

Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.

once we had developed intelligence we weren't satisfied with the world as we found it;

The splendid discontent of God With Chaos, made the world; And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

And from the discontent of one man The world's best progress springs.

Every soul is surrounded by an atmosphere of its own—an atmosphere, it may be, charged with the life-giving power of faith, courage, and hope, and sweet with the fragrance of love. Or it may be heavy and chill with the gloom of discontent and selfishness, or poisonous with the deadly taint of cherished sin. By the atmosphere surrounding us, every person with whom we come in contact is consciously or unconsciously affected.

The whole younger generation looks to me like a sum that doesn't add up.' Lavinia

It was as if the world was presenting her with everything she wanted ... in all the wrong ways.

Personal imi dau demisia din omenire.

The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.

There are people to whom gain is unimportant, who are hopelessly unhappy and lonely.

Cand esti nemultumit din nastere,tuni si fulgeri impotriva a tot,bun sau rau,nu ca sa indrepti ceva,ci ca sa-ti cheltui rezerva zilnica de indignare.

Reprosurile,furiile, amaraciuniile mele provin, toate, dintr-o nemultumire de mine insumi pe care nimeni nu va putea vreodata s-o simta cu aceeasi intensitate.Sila de mine insumi, sila de lume.

No longer wanting to be a man..., dreaming of another form of failure.

Sport is the big giveaway. Wherever sport plays a big part in people's lives you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting to break up the furniture.

Remember, the police are neutral -- they hate everybody.

I have no complaints, except for the world.

it was as if no woman could be really happy even when she was being taken out to dinner. He felt he ought to say something profound, but, naturally enough, nothing profound came out.