Dissatisfaction Quotes
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![Oprah Winfrey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1677767094i/3518._UY200_CR38,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
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![Chuck Palahniuk](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391203076i/2546._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”
― Lullaby
― Lullaby
![Virginia Woolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419596619i/6765._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
![Mitch Albom](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1694790016i/2331._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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 for.”
― Have a Little Faith: a True Story
― Have a Little Faith: a True Story
![John Cheever](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208899860i/7464._CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing.”
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![William Hazlitt](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1679640477i/52629._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.”
― Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims
― Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims
![Albert Camus](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1686463588i/957894._UY200_CR46,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Ce monde, tel qu'il est fait, n'est pas supportable. J'ai donc besoin de la lune, ou du bonheur, ou de l'immortalité, de quelque chose qui soit dément peut-être, mais qui ne soit pas de ce monde.”
― Caligula
― Caligula
![Alain de Botton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1189753902i/13199._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“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 more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.”
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![John le Carré](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1606816199i/1411964._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact."
"And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.”
― Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
"And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.”
― Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
![Kathleen Flinn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1204921800i/453438.jpg)
“I'm a woman; in so many ways I've been programmed to please. I took the job and spent time hunkered over figures, budgets, charts, and fiscal-year projections. I tried, but I hated it.
"Working at a job you don't like is the same as going to prison every day," my father used to say. He was right. I felt imprisoned by an impressive title, travel, perks, and a good salary. On the inside, I was miserable and lonely, and I felt as if I was losing myself. I spent weekends working on reports no one read, and I gave presentations that I didn't care about. It made me feel like a sellout and, worse, a fraud.
Now set free, like any inmate I had to figure out what to do with the rest of my life.”
― The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
"Working at a job you don't like is the same as going to prison every day," my father used to say. He was right. I felt imprisoned by an impressive title, travel, perks, and a good salary. On the inside, I was miserable and lonely, and I felt as if I was losing myself. I spent weekends working on reports no one read, and I gave presentations that I didn't care about. It made me feel like a sellout and, worse, a fraud.
Now set free, like any inmate I had to figure out what to do with the rest of my life.”
― The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
![Gustave Flaubert](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651461896i/1461._UX200_CR0,10,200,200_.jpg)
“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“The absence of lost things is felt most painfully when the things you possess stop providing satisfaction.”
― अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]
― अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]
“जीवनमा गुमाएको कुराको कमी त्यति बेला मर्नेगरी अनुभूत हुनेरै’छ, जब पाएको कुराले सन्तुष्टि दिन छोड्छ ।”
― अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]
― अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]
![Lisi Harrison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1502742971i/4605._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“The confusing lesson whipped Frankie's anger into something she had never felt before. It was like an emotional meringue - the airy feeling of loneliness topped with the hard crisp of injustice. Yet its taste was far from sweet.”
― Monster High
― Monster High
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Love in this life is expanded by our anticipation of the next life. Those who love under God are never satisfied with small love, or love bound by the flaws of human emotion. Those who love under God dream of another life where they can experience it and live it in God's perfect form, so they seek to build it in this life as much as possible.”
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
![John Williams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1519832171i/51229._UY200_CR47,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Mrs. Bostwick’s face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
![Graeme Macrae Burnet](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1478606853i/8186576._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If I learned anything it was that no matter how much material comfort you throw at a human being, we will always find something to be miserable about. We are programmed for dissatisfaction. We always want more.”
― Case Study
― Case Study
![Duncan Ralston](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1442590669i/7509031._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“She hadn't signed on for this. She craved action. She wanted hard deadlines.”
― How to Kill a Celebrity: a Novella
― How to Kill a Celebrity: a Novella
![Kristian Ventura](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1682699040i/18284177._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“He really liked her—especially the way her femininity stimulated him. Alejandra was the type of girl that never let a boy entirely have her. If his lips tried to go for a random peck, she would turn the opposite way and smile a “no.” They would be seated at a restaurant and her peppy, shy voice would say, “Thank you for taking me here, but don’t expect anything.” He felt like he had her slippery heart in his hands, but never held it—instead her heart levitated, floating a few centimeters above his twitching fingertips, shining like a fickle disco ball, magnetized in the air by Alejandra’s masterfully crafted tension. She perfected this practice and learned it from her older sister. Except Alejandra felt that she was not as intelligent or gorgeous as other women, and that this prowess was all she had.”
― A Happy Ghost
― A Happy Ghost
![Yuval Noah Harari](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1716926172i/395812._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem, seeking little more than our own comfort and amusement, yet never finding satisfaction.
Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
![Aida Mandic](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1628959104i/17046592._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The Dark Cloud
Is the resilience and brilliant emotional processing you possess
which makes you cautious when you speak
Is the relentless negativity you faced from people because you were unique
Is the emptiness you have in your identity because you travelled around the world as a kid and felt blue
Is the chronic dissatisfaction of a life where you made choices to satisfy people around you”
― The Dark Cloud
Is the resilience and brilliant emotional processing you possess
which makes you cautious when you speak
Is the relentless negativity you faced from people because you were unique
Is the emptiness you have in your identity because you travelled around the world as a kid and felt blue
Is the chronic dissatisfaction of a life where you made choices to satisfy people around you”
― The Dark Cloud
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