My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
They want you to come to their self pity party, so they broadcast their discontent on Facebook and Twitter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
When everything is finally okay and I'm happy I can't help but expect everything to fall apart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was as if she had thought him into existence again, as if her mind were a flask into which had been… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Almost every yogi that appeared in the book [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] is either somebody I have seen and met and… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which… — John J. Crittenden Copy Share Image
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When there's a strong desire within you to express or create something, know that this feeling is Divine discontent. Your longing is… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“Our young don't play outside anymore; they've lost their innocence too early in their lives. We walk around the house ignoring one… — Martin Suarez Copy Share Image
“...no matter how much Theo achieves and acquires and out-dazzles everyone else, she never seems content. She's taught you that people who… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally;… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime… Criminals have their own responsibility, their… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent. — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Discontent comes from two sources alone: Not having dreams, or not pursuing the ones you have. No one has ever died sorry… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused. — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Sometimes people don't realize what they have, but I'm sure they will realize what they have lost. — Anthony Barger Copy Share Image
The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by… — Mickey Kaus Copy Share Image
We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been… — William Gibson Copy Share Image