Unfulfilling Life Quotes

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

I didn't like mundane life.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks

Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube.

That luxury, ossified Los Angeles world isn't good for the soul.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.

I lead such a boring life.

I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat.

Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.