Quotes About Discontent

Moth holes had appeared in the plush of matrimonial comfort.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

Who are these people, I don't want to be like these people, I don't want to be like anybody in Mt. Rainier, Maryland, ever, ever, ever. Imagine complaining about the price of food and getting up at 6:30 every morning to go to work.

Still, for sixteen years I saw the way he passed the butter dish across the dining room table to her, as if he wished it could be more, as if he wished she could life the lid and precious gems would spill over her dinner, as if that might finally make her happy- an inedible, improvident gift, like easy, unexpected laughter.

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.

She was tired of playing the dutiful assistant to a great man.

the people, on account of this thing over and above all, might rebel and do harm.

Mrs. Richardson remained annoyed with

the feeling that the place you're in is too small.

I realize that I am not happy with the life I lead. I always had one kind of life in mind and things have turned out very differently.

Tecrübe... Neye yarar tecrübe? ?nsanlardan i?renmeye, hayata küsmeye yarar. Eksik olsun.

Ma ne avevo abbastanza e capivo che ormai tutta quanta Torino e il mestiere e le strade e le pietre di casa non bastavano piu a darmi pace.

o femeie care pretuieste mai mult decat barbatul cu care traieste este o mare nefericita.

I am bored in France, especially as everyone resembles Voltaire.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

Not that, this." She took her hands off the wheel and stretched out her arms, the car inching closer to oncoming traffic. "This town, these people, the same old shit every week. I'm done with it. All of it.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.

I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me

You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. You are dissatisfied on account of my rise in fortune, and you can't help showing it.

Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable