Quotes About Discontent

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Meus próprios costumes, que não chegam a distar uma polegada dos costumes correntes, mesmo assim me tornam de certo modo intratável e insociável para o meu século. Não sei se me desgosto sem razão com o mundo em que vivo, mas sei bem que não teria razão se me queixasse de ele se desgostar comigo tanto quanto eu com ele.

My soul has been spoiled by the world, my imagination is unquiet, my heart insatiate. To me everything is of little moment. I become as easily accustomed to grief as to joy, and my life grows emptier day by day. One expedient only is left to me—travel.

My dear colleagues, as you know, the greatest misfortune for a man is a happy marriage; he hasn't the slightest hope of a divorce.

When he asked her why she was so silent, she told him she had not been satisfied with their lovemaking. She said he had made love to her like an intellectual.

La mayor desgracia posible es un matrimonio feliz; no le queda a uno la menor esperanza de divorciarse

Xhelozia e ngërthen mendjen shumë më shterueshëm se një punë intelektuale plot pasion. Mendja nuk gjen më asnjë sekondë prehjeje. Ai që bëhet pre e xhelozisë, nuk di ç'është mërzia.

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

and just as the table is about to finally ignore him, to look away and start eating, he sits up and loudly says, pointing an accusing finger at his plate, "It moved!" Timothy glares at him with a contempt so total that I can't fully equal it but I muster enough energy to come close.

The next morning over a breakfast of bran muffins and kiwi and Evian water and wheatgrass juice, Ann mentioned something about buying a BMW and I had to hold back a scream. It was clear that this had not been my best term; it was clear that I was losing it

When I was a girl, the only thing I wanted to do was write books that would take me around the world. I guess when the place where you are doesn't feel like home, you always want to be somewhere else.

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival.

He always entered the house as though he were entering it with the intention of tearing it down from inside

People who are both powerful and dissatisfied are peculiarly dangerous.

Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!

Sometimes, Tiffany thought, I am so fed up with being young.

Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.

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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.