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Quotes About Discontent

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can't have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Trump appeals to the disaffected by loudly trumpet-ing what they want to hear: other people are always the problem, and the solution is to either put them in their proper place or get rid of them.
~ Michael R. Burch
Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.
~ Spencer Johnson
I do have certain feelings. My feeling is that whoever is in charge, I want him out.
~ Lewis Black
Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?
~ Amy Tan
She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
~ Ann Brashares
Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!
~ Barry Boehm
I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
~ David Nicholls
I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.
~ Emmanuelle Beart
When wealth ascends to a point where the majority of the poor finally comprehend that it is, for each of them, unattainable, then all civility collapses, and anarchy prevails.
~ Steven Erikson
The whole production sizzled with his personal observations, his discontent, he misplaced spirit of renewal. I gave them life, I think, but in such a way that no one could guess his intention. That was my revenge, which I knew he would notice.
~ Storm Constantine
I can't fulfill this destiny you all want for me so badly! I'm sick of hearing about it!
~ Storm Constantine
Only the promise of greater comforts kept me travelling.
~ Storm Constantine
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
~ Susan B. Anthony
It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.
~ Robinho
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
~ A. Whitney Brown
When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.
~ Rick Astley
I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.
~ Chloe Zhao
The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
...... I hate biochemistry because there is no chapter on roses.
~ Farooq A. Shiekh
I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me. .. My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me?
~ Mitch Albom
I, American in body and spirit, healthy, debauched and dedicated to travel, had no date. I felt a simmering discontent. What good was freedom when I wasn't free to hand it over, what use was the currency of my body if I couldn't spend it?
~ Monica Drake
This generation has more advanced luxuries and scientific amenities than any other generation, yet we are more spiritually unfulfilled than any generation in history.
~ Nancy Chandler