#dissatisfied

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#dissatisfied #envious #especially #evil #hearts

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down. ↗

— Eric Brown

#dissatisfied #down #get #guilty #haven

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. ↗

— James Thomson

#condition #dissatisfied #form #happiness #idea

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#become #better #denied #dissatisfied #forward

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#another #became #dissatisfied #fortune #i

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#i #place #rock #roll

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#back #decathlon #dissatisfied #draws #events

...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars... ↗

— John Geddes

#fairy #magic #poetry #stars #love

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#because #books #buy #could #dissatisfied

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#avoid #belief #calm #change #dissatisfied