Quotes About Discontent

Those who look to parenthood as a solution to their discontent will typically find that the rewards, though real, are some years in the future.

I'm wasting my life … I haven't done anything worthwhile in years … I need to move somewhere else, do something else, anything … How come I'm not on the Sunday talk shows? How come I'm not in charge of something, like a business?

This guy's a drag." I spoke under my breath. "He sure is." "Know what I suggest?" "Yep. And the answer's no. I'm not going to kill him." "Oh, you're no fun.

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

Something more profound also happened when I got this guitar. As soon as I got it, I suddenly didn't want it anymore. This phenomenon was to rear its head throughout my life and cause many difficulties.

He tells me that Filipinos are in jail because we Americans want a better world for ourselves. It's America that gives ammunitions to the dictator. He says, Your corporations can do whatever they want here as long as our government protects them from our discontents. It's you who will benefit from a Philippine dictatorship.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

but the air's flat and stale and the people half-hearted. There's nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or meaning, or get mildly drunk, or extract second-hand emotions from the cinema, or put your mind to sleep on a dance-floor, or play bridge, or throw yourself in front of a train on the Underground. There are forty ways of escaping from consciousness. But I want something more exciting than that.

But he is now suddenly untouched by its charms. He seems for the first time to sense that there might be something more. Something is troubling him that he's only just beginning to sense, whose shape he can hardly yet make out in the dim light.

conservatory, grabbed the bouquet and took it out to the garden. She threw it on the ground and stamped

We drove to the hotel and said goodbye. How hypocritical to go upstairs with a man you don't want to fuck, leave the one you do sitting there alone, and then, in a state of great excitement, fuck the one you don't want to fuck while pretending he's the one you do. That's called fidelity. That's called monogamy. That's called civilization and its discontents.

Great, let's round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them. -Jayfeather

I'm just in a bad moood.

She used to think of it vaguely as "We don't get along," but it wasn't even that. There were no clashes or quarrels between them, no question of infidelity. He certainly wasn't the type for an affair, and at forty-eight, her hair graying and her figure gone, she had resigned herself to weary middle age. It was just that together, bleakly confronted with each other, they experienced a vast and hopeless boredom.

Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

He may simply have quit in a fit of pique.

The Weathermen eventually became the Weathermen Underground, bombing police stations, the Pentagon, the homes of private citizens—all while decrying America. "We're against everything that's 'good and decent' in honky America," said Jacobs. "We will burn and loot and destroy.

And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Discontented Minds, and Fevers of the Body are not to be cured by changing Beds or Businesses.