Discontent Quotes
233 Discontent quotes by 183 unique authors
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Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.
— Thomas S. Monson
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Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
— Eugene V. Debs
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Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.
— Nick Harkaway
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People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more,…
— Paulo Coelho
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We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.
— John Steinbeck
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Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents…
— Daniel Defoe
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I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt…
— Charles Dickens
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I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather…
— Daniel Defoe
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He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the…
— Elena Ferrante
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I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I…
— Elizabeth I
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We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their…
— Tana French
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Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally; they urge him…
— John Eldredge
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There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if…
— David Levithan
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Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade…
— Nella Larsen
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Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.
— Frank Herbert
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The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.
— John Green
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death…
— Ben Jonson
Who Wrote These Discontent Quotes
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