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Quotes About Discontent

At least poppy never boared you. Half the marriages i know are temple to boredom
~ May Sarton
Right or not, you're pissing me the fuck off.
~ Maya Banks
This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything -- a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness -- only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted.
~ Megan McCafferty
herself for such a place—something between a sweat shop and a mortuary. Instead, she caught
~ Becky Lee Weyrich
I could never stop comparing the way it was with Gertrud and the way it had been with Hanna; again and again, Gertrud and I would hold each other, and I would feel that something was wrong, that she was wrong, that she moved wrong and felt wrong, smelled wrong and tasted wrong. I thought I would get over it. I hoped it would go away. I wanted to be free of Hanna. But I never got over the feeling that something was wrong.
~ Bernhard Schlink
what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?
~ Bertrand Russell
the mediocre men will say if a really able man is allowed to rise as fast as his abilities deserve, and that is why there is a tendency to adopt the rule of seniority, which, since it has nothing to do with merit, does not give rise to the same envious discontent.
~ Bertrand Russell
All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost should seeking a hope when all that I love is at my wingtips? Because I am curious. Because I am incorrigibly, now, a wanderer.
~ Beryl Markham
If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
~ Fred Allen
I'm so sick of the water.
~ Michael Phelps
I'm sick of environmentalism.
~ Tracey Ullman
I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.
~ Stephen Sprouse
Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.
~ Blake Lively
I don't like any of it. I'm sick and tired of menopause.
~ Lisa Lampanelli
I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.
~ John McCain
I think that people on both sides of the aisle are rejecting what's going on with Washington and the establishment.
~ Scott DesJarlais
There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
~ J. G. Ballard
The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.
~ Derek Walcott
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
~ Louis L'Amour
What does Resistance feel like?   First, unhappiness. We feel like hell. A low-grade misery pervades everything. We're bored, we're restless. We can't get no satisfaction. There's guilt but we can't put our finger on the source. We want to go back to bed; we want to get up and party. We feel unloved and unlovable. We're disgusted. We hate our lives. We hate ourselves.
~ Steven Pressfield
What does Resistance feel like? First, unhappiness. We feel like hell. A low-grade misery pervades everything. We're bored, we're restless. We can't get no satisfaction. There's guilt but we can't put our finger on the source. We want to go back to bed; we want to get up and party. We feel unloved and unlovable. We're disgusted. We hate our lives. We hate ourselves.
~ Steven Pressfield
He was sitting with his feet up on the desk, his face oily-looking under the fluorescent lights. He must have been in his late thirties, but he wasn't aging well. Some combination of temper and discontent had etched lines near his mouth and spoiled the clear brown of his eyes, leaving an impression of a man beleaguered by the Fates. His
~ Sue Grafton
To be honest, I had been restless...The sensation would rise suddenly like freight from the ocean floor--the unexpected discontent of cows in their pasture. The constant chewing of all that cud.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
What a shitbucket.
~ Sue Monk Kidd