Dissatisfied Quotes
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Thirsty, weary, dissatisfied in this sultry life, come as you are; come at once; come because you are invited; as you would not do affront to infinite Generosity, come, and drink, and live forever.
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More Dissatisfied Quotes
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.
— Rabbi Benjamin Blech, American academic and writer. Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life's Financial Ups and Downs (2003).
Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.
john ralston saul— "Freud"
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. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
— John Stuart Mill in Utilitarianism, Ch. 2
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. [...] 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— Unpacking my Library: A Talk About Book Collecting (1931)
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
john stuart mill— 1863 Utilitarianism, ch.2.
The Chairmanlooked dissatisfied lying onhis death bed.
Anchee Min— 1993 Of Mao Zedong. Red Azalea.
Life, if we would mark it, is made up of thousands of suggestions from some unseen quarter, prompting us to duty; starting some thought of what is wise and right and just and good; inclining us to thoughtfulness, to meditation, to prayer; making the soul dissatisfied with its present course, and drawing it along in the path of duty, benevolence, and peace.
albert barnes— P. 318. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model—whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.
bruce fairchild barton— As quoted in Fables of Abundance: a cultural history of advertising in America (1994) by Jackson Lears
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. The peoples of the world are becoming profoundly dissatisfied and are not appeased by the promise of the social-democrats to patch up the State into a new engine of oppression.
peter kropotkin— Speech (26 September 1891); as quoted in Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel (1990) by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 269
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
Robert Nozick— Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; The Framework as Utopian Common Ground, p. 320
He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master, and he who breaks the law is a runaway. And he also who is grieved or angry or afraid, is dissatisfied because something has been or is or shall be of the things which are appointed by Him who rules all things, and He is Law, and assigns to every man what is fit. He then who fears or is grieved or is angry is a runaway.
marcus aurelius— X, 25. (Book X)
Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words .
wallace stevens— As quoted in Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002) by by Bart Eeckhout Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268
The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
colin wilson— p. 139 (The Outsider (1956))
Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm bound away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.
robert frost— "Away!, st. 5,6 (1962)
It is better to be a human 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. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
john stuart mill— Ch. 2 (Ch. V: Applications)
