Discontent Quotes

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the literary marketplace. It is distracting and can lead to discontent.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.

What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

What is more miserable than discontent?

The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.

Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.