#dissatisfaction

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #dissatisfaction




Love is not insatiable. What is insatiable is the need for love.


Marty Rubin


#love #need #satisfaction #love

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.


Thomas Hardy


#dissatisfaction #drama-queen #self-delusion #unhappiness #love

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.


John Hope


#dissatisfaction #further #possession

Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.


Alain de Botton


#dissatisfaction #modern-age #possibilities #wealth #age

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.


John Cheever


#delusions #dissatisfaction #fables #indifference #jokes

Čovjek je proklet, i žali za svim putevima kojima nije prošao.


Meša Selimović


#life-questions #regrets #death

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.


Alain de Botton


#fault-finding #intelligence #mediocrity #intelligence

If one’s life is so unsatisfying that an unhealthy activity brings a shred of happiness, it is nigh impossible to give it up unless something that brings greater happiness can be enjoyed in its stead. (28)


Prem Prakash


#happiness #health #satisfaction #life

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.


Jimmy Carter


#basis #because #become #came #criticize

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.


Douglas Horton


#changes #direct #direct proportion #dissatisfaction #never