Quotes About Discontent

He looked at his frayed sports coat and his worn-out running shoes, decided he was easily ten years behind the times and thousands of dollars short in refurbishing his wardrobe, and sighed as he entered the elevator.

Axonn sighed. Just like the good old days, he said. Now I remember why I hated them so much.

How did we get here?' Sophie asks. 'We drove our cars,' I say, teasing. She makes a face and signals for more wine. 'Funny,' she says. 'I mean to this place in our lives when everything seems so perfect but isn't?

Hannah set down her paperwork. "That's complete bullshit.

resentment is unmet need or desire

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.

People in jobs that they hate must be worn out.

Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

our freedom to express discontent with and even anger at our government's actions is vital to the preservation of a free and open society.

The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see.

se había vuelto revolucionario.

It occurred to me that there was nothing more precious than satisfaction. That it was possible to end up committing a crime just because you were contaminated by a little discontent. You could convince yourself that you were satisfied, then someone could come along and say, 'But I can offer you more', and then you could begin to think, My life is not worth much after all. In fact, you could tell yourself, My life was completely worthless from the start. p. 247, Yahoo Yahoo

The two of us weren't made for this world, because there's nothing in it we want to possess.

Come si possono portare i consumi all'infinito? Il meccanismo è costruito su tre leve che sono la pubblicità che ci fa desiderare qualcosa, rendendoci insoddisfatti di ciò che abbiamo; il credito, che ci permette di acquistare qualcosa anche se non abbiamo il denaro necessario; e la cosiddetta obsolescenza programmata che ci impone di rinnovare il consumo perché il mercato offre oggetti costruiti per durare sempre meno.

I'm screwed up-- I'm so full of contempt for everyone and everything. I mean, sure, I like lots of things but... I don't know. I've just become too goddamn judgmental!

Restlessness is an itch that, if left unscratched, is a curse.