dissatisfaction

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
ce3b242	Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?	consumerism dissatisfaction lullaby more palahniuk want	Chuck Palahniuk
b606d58	To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.	dissatisfaction drama-queen self-delusion unhappiness	Thomas Hardy
dd714f8	"We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact." "And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more."	desires dissatisfaction greed saturation	John le Carré
4b414cf	The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.	boredom cyber cyberworld david-foster-wallace depression dissatisfaction distractions emptiness empty endlessness facebook facebook-addiction facebook-quotes filler first-world-problems jonathan-franzen loneliness lonely problems robinson-crusoe satisfaction solitary solitude stimulation suicide virtual void	Jonathan Franzen
8f6772f	But she--her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.	discontent dissatisfaction frustration restlessness	Gustave Flaubert
b9d1fa2	Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.	dissatisfaction modern-age possibilities wealth	Alain de Botton
8eb1f02	"There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay," Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it."	dissatisfaction	Nadia Bolz-Weber

ce3b242

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

consumerism dissatisfaction lullaby more palahniuk want

Chuck Palahniuk

b606d58

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

dissatisfaction drama-queen self-delusion unhappiness

Thomas Hardy

dd714f8

"We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact." "And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more."

desires dissatisfaction greed saturation

John le Carré

4b414cf

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

boredom cyber cyberworld david-foster-wallace depression dissatisfaction distractions emptiness empty endlessness facebook facebook-addiction facebook-quotes filler first-world-problems jonathan-franzen loneliness lonely problems robinson-crusoe satisfaction solitary solitude stimulation suicide virtual void

Jonathan Franzen

8f6772f

But she--her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

discontent dissatisfaction frustration restlessness

Gustave Flaubert

b9d1fa2

Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.

dissatisfaction modern-age possibilities wealth

Alain de Botton

8eb1f02

"There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay," Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it."

dissatisfaction

Nadia Bolz-Weber