Complaining Quotes and Sayings

O mind, don’t cry out that you are hungry, always hungry; stop complaining. The One who created the 8.4 million species of beings gives sustenance to all.
- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

The money is great, no way am I complaining.
- David Wells

Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That’s why I get immediately bored with anyone’s complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else. Or don’t.
- Henry Rollins

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It’s great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I’m not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven’t done what they wanted with their lives.
- Martha Gellhorn

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
- Jeff Raskin

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
- Bill Joy

My tragic view of life… leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them.
- Dennis Prager

But honestly, it’s pretty weird; there are girls who’d do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don’t know what it is, but really, when you’re on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I’m not complaining!
- Kid Rock

Women are always complaining about men’s fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?
- Jonathan Carroll

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
- Randall Jarrell

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
- Francois Fenelon

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.
- Edgar Watson Howe

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
- Benjamin Franklin

I think there’s an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we’re complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.
- Sherilyn Fenn

You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.
- Bernard M. Baruch

It is rare indeed that there is not ample occasion for grumbling.
- John Wagstaff

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
- Antoine Rivarol

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
- Oliver Kahn

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent 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 that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
- Seneca

Untold suffering seldom is.
- Franklin P. Jones