“That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.”

“People sometimes complain that Berliners just sit around all day in cafes, smoking and talking about art. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?”

“There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.”

“A man shouldn’t assume his wife was happy just because she didn’t complain all the time. She had complained this morning. He’d spanked her for it. That didn’t sit right somehow.”

“We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of Time”

“One of the things we say in our work, how you know you're projecting is to listen to yourself complain. Anything you hear yourself complain about three or more times is sure to be a projection.Gay Hendricks”