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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Dissatisfaction

George Bernard Shaw

WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Dissatisfaction

Simone de Beauvoir

NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Dissatisfaction

NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

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No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men.

Dissatisfaction

WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

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No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Dissatisfaction

Martin Luther King Jr.

LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

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The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

Dissatisfaction

AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

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There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, ''Anywhere but here.''

Dissatisfaction

Ralph Waldo Emerson

PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

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