Dissatisfied Quotes

“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

“Some don’t want to be happy, inasmuch as they undergo happiness merely as languor and yawning. They are dissatisfied with a bland and vacuous state of glee and, instead, prefer to keep on running like raging bulls through the whims and quirks of life. In reality, their dissatisfaction is their contentment. ("Happiness blowing in the wind" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Happiness is not good for the economy.
We are encouraged, continually, to be a little bit dissatisfied with ourselves.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“But coming out of that sleep was excruciating. My entire life flashed before my eyes in the worst way possible, my mind refilling itself with all my lame memories, every little thing that had brought me to where I was. I'd try to remember something else—a better version, a happy story, maybe, or just an equally lame but different life that would at least be refreshing in its digressions—but it never worked. I was always still me. Sometimes I woke up with my face wet with tears. The only times I cried, in fact, were when I was pulled out of that nothingness, when the alarm on my cell phone went off.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and realise that there must be more to life than working 9 to 5, buying and accumulating expensive 'things'and being attractive to members of the opposite sex.”
― Tim Crawshaw, So, You Want to Be Rich... But Jesus Doesn't.

“Most people mostly use freedom of speech as freedom to bitch.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Personal discontent and lost illusion is the catalysis and the principal theme for every book ever written. The sign of maturity is when a person finally realizes that they would rather live truthfully than persist indulging his or her comforting delusions.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“At any other time it's better. You can do the things you feel you should; you're an expert at going through the motions. Your handshakes with strangers are firm and your gaze never wavers; you think of steel and diamonds when you stare. In monotone you repeat the legendary words of long-dead lovers to those you claim to love; you take them into bed with you, and you mimic the rhythmic motions you've read of in manuals. When protocol demands it you dutifully drop to your knees and pray to a god who no longer exists. But in this hour you must admit to yourself that this is not enough, that you are not good enough. And when you knock your fist against your chest you hear a hollow ringing echo, and all your thoughts are accompanied by the ticks of clockwork spinning behind your eyes, and everything you eat and drink has the aftertaste of rust.”
― Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“To Connie, everything in her world and life seemed worn out, and her dissatisfaction was older than the hills.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“Sometimes I just feel so shut in, with all those people and they've all got something while I've got nothing.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“We held on to great memories. This sustains us in every moment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is impossible to count your blessings while you are counting the things with which you need or want to be blessed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Why did no one satisfy her? What was she looking for that she couldn't find? Her battered heart offered her no answers.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“Even in those rest times, though, often we are really restless and dissatisfied with the way we rest.”
― Curtis Zachary

“He felt irritably dissatisfied with himself. Then his old huge familiar misery gradually returned like an old friend.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“Be dissatisfied with what is, but remain visionary of what can be done.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“Henrietta was bitter. Nothing in her life had turned out well. Like everyone else, she had striven all her life to achieve happiness. Yet it seemed to her that she had never been happy.”
― Mary Balogh, Heartless

“Never be absolutely satisfied with what you are doing, because in the long run what you are Not doing will keep you unsatisfied.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“We are overworked and overstressed, constantly dissatisfied, and reaching for a bar that keeps rising higher and higher.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout