Complaining Quotes

“I’ve warned him about the dangers of smoking and second-hand smoke. He always looks off in the distance, as if giving my warnings serious thought, then returns to his paper. I reconcile it all by thinking of him as an incense burner. I do like the smell of pipe tobacco . . . may Al Gore forgive me.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

“You don't know the true meaning of BEAUTY if you see it everywhere but in your own life.”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer

“Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Uncle Charles lived in a shady wooden house out in the country, and he was too old to eat corn on the cob. He lay in bed, shrunken and brown and very old. He complained that the pictures were hung crooked on the wall, and they took down all the framed pictures - it was not that. He complained that his bed was placed in a wrong corner, and so they moved the bed - it was not that. Then his voice failed, and when he tried to talk, it was as though his throat had filled with glue, and they could not understand the words. One Sunday the Wests had gone out to see him and taken Frankie with them; she had tiptoed to the open door of the back bedroom. He looked like an old man carved in brown wood and covered with a sheet. Only his eyes had moved, they were like blue jelly, and she had felt they might come out from the sockets and roll like blue wet jelly down his stiff face. She had stood in the doorway staring at him - then tiptoed away, afraid. They finally made out that he complained the sun shone the wrong way through the window, but that was not the thing that hurt him so. And it was death.”
― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

“It’s okay to complain
It doesn’t weaken you
It softens you first around the mouth then the eyes
That first breath is a thank you
without airs
You’ll swallow and it’ll go into your belly
And your hands will clasp your throat but it’ll be too late
because once it hits the blood your heart will have it and it’s okay there
Mortally you will feel how it is to be whole and in ruins

There you are

Scream
Roll in the aisles
Cry
Another breath
Breeeeeeeeeeeeeathe

And complain again
you human
Your wildness will die before you and it does not need permission to leave or forgiveness for leaving

This is how you let us know you don’t want to be here any more than we want you here”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“If the sky rained lollipops, you'd complain about the sticks.”
― Lori Alden Holuta

“When you realize how grateful you are for what you have, you will stop complaining about what you don’t have!”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“male seahorse, complaining and nagging and wondered why those two verbs are deemed feminine and attributed to female behavior when males are capable of and do that just as often”
― J.S. Mason, A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

“What most people fail to realize is that you have the wheel. You are the captain of your ship for life. The easy road is self pity and complaining.”
― Wallace Miles, UNDERR8TED: The Route That Caught an NFL Dream

“One of the main goals and effects of stoicism is to stop an adult from being a crybaby.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If it's really hard to find a sensible person around, become one.”
― Raheel Farooq

“To complain about life is to complain about being alive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Stop complaining and start loving; every complaint will vanish like fog in the morning sunlight.”
― Debasish Mridha

“It is dangerous. For people to fell that they alone have suffered, it is very dangerous. Having such a degree of resentment is a recipe for trouble. Our society has made itself open for such people, but when they come in, all you hear is complaints. Why would you want to move somewhere only to prove how different you are? And why would a society like that want to welcome you? But if you live as long as I do, you will see that there is an endless variety of difficulties in the world. It's difficult for everybody. I nodded. But it would of been different, I said, if you only heard him tell it. He's not a complainer, and I don't think he's full of resentment, not really. I think the hurt is genuine. Well, I'm sure it is, she said, but if you're too loyal to your own suffering, you forget that others suffer, too. There's a reason, she said, I had to leave Belgium and try to make my life in another country. I don't complain and, to be honest, I really have little patience for people who do. You're not a complainer are you?”
― Teju Cole, Open City

“It was common to hear workers complaining about their health issues at the Desoto Solar Farm.”
― Steven Magee

“The workers at the Desoto Solar Farm were complaining of tiredness and were drinking lots of Mountain Dew sodas! I was constantly tired while working there and drinking lots of coffee. The inverter technician looked really sickly!”
― Steven Magee

“I hired a rental car at the Kona airport during Hawaii island VOG air pollution and the agent told me people had been complaining of headaches for weeks!”
― Steven Magee

“Accept it, Ignore it or Change it but don't complain”
― Kunal Tandel (KT)

“I discovered that my girlfriend had been sending hundreds of dollars to her secret lover during the breakdown of our relationship. She had been complaining to me that she had no money and wanted me to contribute more to the household!”
― Steven Magee

“When you live through the mind-made self comprised of thought and emotion that is the ego, the basis for your identity is precarious because thought and emotion are by their very nature ephemeral, fleeting. So every ego is continuously struggling for survival, trying to protect and enlarge itself. To uphold the I-thought, it needs the opposite thought of "the other." The conceptual "I" cannot survive without the conceptual "other." The others are most other when I see them as my enemies. At one end of the scale of this unconscious egoic pattern lies the egoic compulsive habit of faultfinding and complaining about others. Jesus referred to it when he said, "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?" At the other end of the scale, there is physical violence between individuals and warfare between nations. In the Bible, Jesus' question remains unanswered, but the answer is, of course: Because when I criticize or condemn another, it makes me feel bigger, superior.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The information consumer, enslaved by e-commerce, video streaming, and social media, a narcissist and a chronic complainer, is not well versed in the art of critical thinking and is incapable of employing his gray cells to their full capacity.”
― V.J. Cole, The Modern Ignoramus

“I felt an itch and thought, Is there a tick crawling on me? Right this minute? Burrowing into my skin?

And then I thought, Wait. Forget the tick. Why are we always complaining? We get to be alive.”
― Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

“We are often our own worst enemies. We create our own limitations and then complain that life is unfair.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are

“Some people complain; others act.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“Calling people stupid with no real solution of your own is a fool's reach for superiority.”
― Criss Jami

“If you spent less time complaining, it would already be done.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“I was complaining about a messy worker I supervised to my manager. They took me to an office that looked like a bomb had been dropped on it and told me, "He is one of our top researchers!".”
― Steven Magee

“The truth is, Josie’s faith has grown, and mine has stayed lukewarm. She keeps trying to include me, but part of me just wants to stay in the bitter, complaining stage. In some ways, it’d easier.”
― Leslea Wahl, Charting the Course

“We have to remember that most major social justice movements in history began with a complaint.”
― Whitney Goodman, Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy

“Zero for complaint and 100 for gratitude.”
― Muhammad Tariq Majeed