Novala Takemoto Quotes

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

I feel like I was born in the wrong time.

I don't like the way I see society going.

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

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.

Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.

When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.

They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present and pave the way to a better future. For example, if we delve more deeply into ancient Egyptian and African civilisations we will discover the humanistic elements that were prevalent in many areas of life. Women enjoyed a high status and rights, which they later lost when class patriarchal society became the prevalent social system.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?