See Also: DEJECTION, GLOOM

1. Disgruntled as an under-tipped taxi driver —Anon
2. Dissatisfaction with himself had settled over him … as congruently as a second skin —François Camoin
3. Discontent follows ambition like a shadow —Anon
4. Discontent … had come over her like a blighting wind —George Eliot
5. Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness —Owen Feltham
6. Discontent like alum in the mouth —Wallace Stegner
7. His whole wounded life choked him at the throat like a death agony —Émile Zola
8. Looking as unhappy as an aging, wet and exhausted salesman whose luck had played out at last —Howard Frank Mosher
9. Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact —Bertrand Russell
10. Unhappiness burns like leaves —F. D. Reeve
11. Unhappiness inhabited me as if it were another person and it had the power to pull memories from me, as if from an open file —Scott Spencer
12. Unhappiness … it is like climbing up a bare wall. It is like being shut up in a cellar all your life —Vicki Baum
13. Unhappy as a baseball player who can’t get to third base —Anon
14. Unhappy as a character in a soap opera —Elyse Sommer