Glenn Kelman Quotes

I can't get no satisfaction.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

The world today doesn't please me.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

Despair - or as I like to call it, des-pair - means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like everyone else is paired with a good job, a happy marriage, loving family, caring, and hope - and you're not.

I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.

I'm not really happy with my football career, but I can't complain about it, either.

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.