Quotes About Discontent

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

I have been considerably picky for somebody who's not a movie star, and sometimes I get frustrated.

When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own creation, the National Banking System... while the banking system was partially centralized under their leadership, it was not centralized enough.

For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'

I'd rather be dead than work in a warehouse.

My best day ever. Got up. Had breakfast. Came to school. Bored, as usual. Wishing I wasn't there, like usual. Kids ignoring me, suits me fine. Sitting with the other retards—we're so special. Wasting my time. Yesterday was the same, and it's gone, anyway. Tomorrow may never come. There is only today. This is the best day and the worst day. Actually it's crap.

For the Celtic soul is the stronghold of dreams, of longings come down the dim paths of the ages; and within it there dwells a vague discontent, so that it must for ever go questing. And

I hate possibilities—God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

the economy cannot stop making us consume more and more, and to consume without respite is to change illusions at an accelerating pace which gradually dissolves the illusion of change. We find ourselves alone, unchanged, frozen in the empty space behind the waterfall of gadgets, family cars and paperbacks.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

This website absolutely sucks!!!

That girl in the backseat of the beater, I wonder if she's bored d restless, stuck in this small town, hating the slow, stoned laughter and the same rock song on the radio. I hope she caught a glimpse of me through the steam. Even if she only saw my tear widen and my legs kick off the ground, she might think I know where I'm going. She might think I've found a way.

I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level.

Many of my supporters, they want to change the system, and they are not in favor of the establishment.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. "None of this is worth it!" That's what I'd like people to hear.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. None of this is worth it! That's what I'd like people to hear.

I'd like to go out in the front yard and shout something. 'None of this is worth it!' That's what I'd like people to hear.

He says he can't understand these people. "People who sail through life like the world owes them a living.