Quotes About Discontent

As I said, the people are tired of atoning for the sins of another generation. They see foreigners as a constant reminder of that. Can't you see? Continuous apologies only fuel the fires of discontent. What is reported there in the newspaper is a prime example of what I am saying. Acts of violence like that are merely reflections of collective frustration. - Kurt Eisunhuth

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

For decades, journalism's steady focus on problems and seemingly incurable pathologies was preparing the soil that allowed Trump's seeds of discontent and despair to take root. . .

Trump was the beneficiary of a belief—near universal in American journalism—that "serious news" can essentially be defined as "what's going wrong." . . . For decades, journalism's steady focus on problems and seemingly incurable pathologies was preparing the soil that allowed Trump's seeds of discontent and despair to take root. . . .

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

I may not be old but I'm too old to have this much nothing

For such individuals, the world of experience is insufficient and evil—so to hell with everything!

Qué debo hacer cuando desprecio lo que tengo? Recordar a aquellos que no tienen nada y que aspiran a ser agradecidos».

Los que se levantan temprano a fuerzas constituyen un grupo social de descontentos, en donde se gestarían revoluciones si sus miembros no tuvieran la tendencia a quedarse dormidos con cualquier pretexto y en cualquier postura

Upang matawag na isang dakilang kritiko, wala nang hihigit pa sa pagpapamalas ng kawalang-kasiyahan sa lahat ng bagay.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. We are all born despots, from the most absolute monarch in Asia to the infant who smothers a bird with its hand for the pleasure of seeing that there exists in the world a being weaker than itself.

What you get, you don't want, and what you want, you don't get. David Irving, Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (Focal Point Publications, 2014), Pp. 67

'Mongst all these stirs of discontented strife,O, let me lead an academic life;To know much, and to think for nothing, knowNothing to have, yet think we have enow.

I am not a man of my time. In fact I find it hard not to declare myself its enemy. Not, as I often remark, that I fail to understand it. My comment is merely a pious one. Because I am easy-going I prefer not to be aggressive or hostile and therefore I say that I do not understand those matters which I ought to say I hate or despise. I have sharp ears but I pretend to be hard of hearing, finding as I do that is more elegant to feign this handicap than to admit that I have heard some vulgar sound

Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96

You'll be feeling more than impatience if you keep giving me rubbish tasks like this! he predicted mutinously.

It seems like every day's a bad day with you." Shut up! Shut up! "It's leaf-bare," Sunfall began. Duh!

I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked. I

Some people define themselves by railing against all of the things they hate, while explaining why everyone else should hate it too.

I'll still be sitting on my ass all day, five blocks from where I graduated, working the same crappy retail job I had when I was sixteen?" I finished for her. "Exactly." I tried to look hurt. "I find your lack of faith disturbing.

For those who govern find it necessary to occupy themselves with things which they do not understand, and, above all, to waste the greater part of their energy in keeping themselves in power, striving to satisfy their friends, holding the discontented in check, and mastering the rebellious.

He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life.