Dissatisfaction Quotes

135 quotes by 122 authors

Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist… — John Huston
As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient conditioning rather than… — Wes Nisker
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps… — Martha Graham
Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness. — Eckhart Tolle
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the… — Adyashanti
Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie. — David Deida
All [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating. — Alton Brown
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living. — Heraclitus
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. — Berthold Auerbach
A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and… — Robert Reich
Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who… — David Niven
The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes… — Eric Hoffer
In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally… — Wystan Hugh Auden
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose… — Joan Didion
The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction… — Meher Baba
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction… — Mario Vargas Llosa
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness. — Andrew Bird
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. — Joseph Barbera

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