Dissatisfaction Quotes

135 quotes by 119 authors

Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you… — Sylvia Plath
Murray said, Â´I donÂ´t trust anybodyÂ´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. ItÂ´s a settling of grievances between the… — Don DeLillo
it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the… — Leo Tolstoy
Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive… — Chogyam Trungpa
This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan… — Stanislav Grof
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.… — Don DeLillo
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this… — Arthur Schopenhauer
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing… — Alain de Botton
Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can… — Jennifer Egan
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are… — Fernando Pessoa
There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction. — G I Gurdjieff
When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move… — Paulo Coelho
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work… — Mitch Albom
I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. Itâ€™s an unpardonable sin as far as Iâ€™m… — Anthony Bourdain
I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well. — Karl Lagerfeld
Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction. — Shinjo Ito
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second,… — Leo Buscaglia
Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders… — Ivan Krastev
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove… — Janine di Giovanni

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