Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of…

“I abhour the dull routine of existence" - Sherlock Holmes”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to…

— Mitch Albom

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to…

— Helen Keller

“But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.”

— Mitch Albom

Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?

— Ai Yazawa

'The Stepford Wives' was too big, and it was unsatisfying to do. Not that it was unsatisfying to do, but it was unsatisfying as…

— Frank Oz

“Everything in the world is ultimately unsatisfying and unreliable because it won’t last.”

— Dan Harris

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

— Eckhart Tolle

The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying.

— Eric Drooker

“It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt.”

— Paul Di Filippo

“Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying. It cant make up for the evil done to you, but it can destroy the remaining good…

— Bill Willingham

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

— Jim Broadbent

“Even the ground beneath his feet feels unsatisfying to his boots.”

— Erin Morgenstern

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

— Stephen King

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive…

— Theodore Dalrymple