Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you!

I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

I don't want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.

In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.

What if every relationship you've ever been in, is someone slowly figuring out they didn't like you as much as they hoped they would?

I met my share of boys but the end result was always the same - they weren't the right kind of men for me.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

I saw everything on my parents, and I said to myself: 'I don't want to live my life like this.' They gave me everything they could but it was not amazing.

I do what work I get. I'm disappointed half the time.

My greatest regret is that my mother died before I could help her materially.

It's always the losers who are complaining about a result.

My daughter is a bit annoyed with me that she didn't get to meet Baby Yoda.

I'm an actress but it's not fulfilling me in the way I thought it would.

I've always wanted to be what my father never was to me.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

I was told by the world for a long time that I was angry, or that I was sad.

In every team there are those who are discontented.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

I will be unhappy if RDA ducks me. I will be very unhappy.

Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.