Unsatisfying Quotes

27 quotes by 25 authors

Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we… — Richard Dawkins
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending… — Orson Scott Card
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and… — Renata Adler
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and… — Renata Adler
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying,… — B. C. Forbes
The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality. — Sigmund Freud
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying. — Jim Broadbent
It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two,… — Sigmund Freud
It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a… — John Bunyan
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. — J. Paul Getty
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure… — Bertrand Russell
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes… — John Irving
From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule," he whispered. "That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves… — Megan Whalen Turner
[Worshipping God] is like fellating someone who intermittently stubs fags out on your head for no good reason. And we all know how unsatisfying that… — Charlie Brooker
And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an… — David Foster Wallace
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow… — Carl Sagan
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas â€“ complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse. — George F. Kennan
Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth. — Cynthia Lord
Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying? — Ai Yazawa
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universeâ€”even a positivist oneâ€”remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Who Wrote These Unsatisfying Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 27 Unsatisfying Quotes as follows: