Quotes About Discontent

Things oughtn't to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them.

He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about a life of service and self-sacrifice. Everybody had said it was beautiful and inspiring. Only he had not felt inspired. He had felt nothing at all.

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn't grateful. I wasn't grateful at all. Don't get me wrong. I acted like I was. But I wasn't. To tell you the truth, I was starting to get mad.

It started yesterday at home. I don't like my birthday. I don't like it at all.

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no brick and no temples.

Is that how you feel, my friend? That the air dislikes you and your lungs feel half-empty?

I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it.

My real dissatisfaction is with my dissatisfaction. How dare I be so discontent? How dare I? Or being discontent why cannot I shut up about it?

And he, despite the gallons of free whisky on offer, was wishing himself violently elsewhere.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Y, por más que lo intento, no entiendo cómo puedes estar satisfecha con una vida tan minúscula. Esta vida que tiene lugar en un radio de poco más de cinco kilómetros y que no incluye a nadie capaz de sorprenderte, exigirte o mostrarte cosas que te dejen boquiabierta y no te dejen dormir de noche.

And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five-mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.

It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched out ahead of you.

It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched ahead of you.

Money didn't buy you happiness, she reflected afterward, but it certainly provided you with better places to be miserable.

block three times in search of a suitable parking space. We got there, and almost before I had closed the door behind him he said all the work was terrible. I

During those first two weeks, I got quite good at keeping my face completely blank, and I would turn away and disappear into the other room and just say as little to him as I possibly could. I started to hate him, and I'm sure he knew it.

He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of the world, expecting everything to be different, and never quite got over the fact it felt the same.

a middle-class teacher or a working-class taxi driver in San Francisco, and if every morning you watch as millionaires who look like teenagers queue on Van Ness Avenue for the Google bus, the status gap probably feels even bigger than the income gap.