Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.

Thir must be less tae life than this

I don't know how you do it [working at office]; I would just get up and walk out. That's what I did for pretty much every job I've ever had.

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

I'm not a happy person when I'm working.

People have no idea how much I hate this job.

The whole thing with so many people empathising with 'The Office' has made me aware of how people aren't doing jobs they love, aren't living a life they love. Which I find devastating.

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

I grew up thinking that corporate America was my destination. Then I got there, and I was making the money I wanted to make, but I just wasn't happy.

Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm.

I had a corporate job and wore a suit to work every day, and I just kind of felt like I wasn't living my authentic self or doing what I was passionate about.

I wake up in the morning, and I look in a mirror, and I go, 'Is this really all I got? Is this all the universe has given me?'

I enjoyed 12-plus years in TNA, but in the end, I didn't like being there doing what I was doing. That was my issue. I needed to get away.