Dissatisfied Quotes

• Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

  Eric Hoffer

  Frustration, Confusion, Want

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Writing, People

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.488, Harvard University Press

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• Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.488, Harvard University Press

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• There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, People, Pride And Prejudice Book

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119

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• The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

  Marianne Moore

  Believe, Joy, Wish

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.114, Penguin

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• Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

  John Chamberlain

  Art, Mean, People

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• It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.

  John Stuart Mill

  Pigs, Different, Fool

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.102, Hackett Publishing

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• I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

  Paul Westerberg

  Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Believe, Asking Questions, Sake

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

  Annie Lennox

  Fashion, Fuel, Stuff

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2009.

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• When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

  Will Rogers

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Thinking

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• What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Havens

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• Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Levels, Discontent

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• But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

  Tobias Wolff

  Writing, Doe, Littles

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• No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.

  Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres

  Satisfaction, Fortune, Intellect

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 690), 1922.

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• There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

  Ashton Eaton

  Perfect, Trying, Events

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• I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

  Marianne Moore

  Nationalism

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.114, Penguin

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• ...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters

  Gunter Grass

  Hands, Left Hand, Fists

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• Throw em a bone and they want a steak.

  Drake

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Ems

  Drizzy @Drake, twitter.com. November 2, 2011.

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• One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person’s job to make you happy. Your happiness is not someone else’s job. Until you realize this, you will always be dissatisfied with your relationships. Ultimately, your relationship with others mirrors your relationship to happiness.

  Robert Holden

  Jobs, Mirrors, Important

  Robert Holden (2009). “Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You”, p.181, Hay House, Inc

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• The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and thirsty, and dissatisfied, till it comes to Christ. It is only they who hear Christ's voice, and follow Him, and feed on Him by faith, who are 'filled.'.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Men, Voice

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.170, Editora Dracaena

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• Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more.

  Benjamin Blech

  Thinking, Greed, Desire

  Benjamin Blech (2003). “Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life's Financial Ups and Downs”, p.135, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Learn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfied-and much more pleasant.

  Jacob de Jager

  Learning, Easy, Satisfied

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• I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Gratitude, Philosophical, Envy

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• The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Revolutionary, Genuine

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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