Discontentment Quotes

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

From minute one, I thought that after I called a game, I said 'Man, I thought I would enjoy calling a game a little more than I probably did.' I thought I would enjoy that part of it. I didn't have the fulfillment that I thought I probably would.

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

I just get grumpy with bad behaviour.

I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.

I'm never happy with anything I've done! If you sat me down and played everything I've ever recorded, I'd just sit there going, 'No... that could be better.'

he will become a malcontent and possibly espouse and give additional weight to the opposition to the Government .

People have no idea how much I hate this job.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

When it comes to topping the 'least popular' lists, MPs have form. Typically, we're pipped to the post only by bankers and traffic wardens.

The more I get used to my life, the more restless I become.

I'm not satisfied with anything I do.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.