Dorothea Dix Quotes

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

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

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

I'd never been content in America.

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

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

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

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

I'm not very happy idle.

It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else!

Mostly, I just waste my time.

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.

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.

We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fifteen.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

I can't get no satisfaction.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.