Quotes About Discontent

You know, I equate work here to when you come home at night and you say to your wife, 'Honey, is everything OK?' and she says, 'Yes, yes, everything is OK.' But deep down you know in your heart something isn't right. Well, that's the feeling I have here. And what's not right about working here is that I always feel like an unwanted guest.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

As most of the unhappiness in the world arises rather from disappointed desires than from positive evil, it is of the utmost consequence to attain just notions of the laws and order of the universe, that we may not vex ourselves with fruitless wishes, or give way to groundless and unreasonable discontent.

We get what we say we want, only to discover that what we want doesn't satisfy us to the degree that we expect.

The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation.

I thought I was unhappy before… I was just a stupid young kid that didn't know what happiness was. I was like a snot in a candy store who not only wanted all he could eat, but the whole thing. Life is stupid. Stupid. Or at least to this point, mine is.

I did not realize how many people would not be happy with my success.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.

I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

I always hated school.

I did '24;' it was terrible. I hated every moment of it.

I hated Long Island, and I had to get out.

I hated being a lawyer.

When I left Carlisle United for the first time at the age of 16 in 2000, I hated football.

I hated high school.

Schoolwork was always suffering! I hated school!

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

Everybody hates Congress; even Congress hates Congress.