life dissatisfaction Quotes

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

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.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

Every stage of life longs for others. When one is young and eager, one aspires to maturity, and everyone older would like nothing better than to be young.

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

I didn't like mundane life.

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.

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since.

If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.

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.

I've definitely gone through phases where I'm not happy with my life, and you notice in little ways until they start adding up.

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.