Joseph Epstein Quotes

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

People have no idea how much I hate this job.

When I left the Seekers it was because I was unhappy. I wouldn't have left if I'd been happy.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

I'd never been content in America.

I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

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

I can't pretend to be enjoying this. I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style.

There are people who are unhappy with everything.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

I have just gotten to the point where I have been very, very disgusted with the fact that nothing is going on down there.

A minority of malcontents, some justly, some unjustly, angry with the present state of things, will always exist in this world.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

The more I get used to my life, the more restless I become.

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

It's a blessing and a curse, 'cause I'm never satisfied, so I continually want to outdo myself. But still, I'm never happy.

I always complain.

I have this problem where I'm never satisfied with what I do.

I hate not playing. That's the bottom line.

That's not always a nice feeling when you've given everything, and it's not enough - it's an empty feeling.