Top 212 Dissatisfaction Quotes & Sayings

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

There is no perfect relationship. You have to work around the dissatisfaction.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. If we suffer pain we want to escape it. We experience dissatisfaction all the time. All activities contain dissatisfaction or pain, continuously.

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

When we complain, we often project onto others the dissatisfaction of how we're dealing with our own lives.

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

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

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.

It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation - none of them - not in the long run. In the long run she only says Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me. And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.

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

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.

...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster.

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of it.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

... dissatisfaction with one's self and dissatisfaction with the world - is necessary - it is one of the prime things that keeps the artist going on - that drives him - happiness, as such, must come in between times, as best it can.

When you look at yourself and feel dissatisfaction about any part of you, you will continue to attract feelings of dissatisfaction, because the law mirrors back to you exactly what you are holding inside. Be in awe and wonder at the magnificence of you!

For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our loves and friendships possible, and so very unsatisfactory. The hunger is for...nothing less than perfect communion with the...one in whom all the fragments of our scattered existence come together...we must not stifle this longing. It is a holy dissatisfaction. Such dissatisfaction is not a sickness to be healed, but the seed of a promise to be fulfilled...The only death to fear is the death of settling for something less.

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

In the case of Bosnia, studies showed that turning to religion was a consequence of post-war depression and dissatisfaction.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.

There is dissatisfaction among a great many Christian people. They are not happy with what they have and, therefore, respond readily to the message of the restored gospel.

A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.

With me; it's just a genetic dissatisfaction with everything.

During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

My dissatisfaction with acting has nothing to do with being uncomfortable or vulnerable or feeling like people are going to criticize me. That's not the problem.