Discontent Quotes

233 Discontent quotes by 183 unique authors

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… — Jerry Bridges
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent. — Jaggi Vasudev
It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as we dream, as… — Walker Evans
We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent. — Vincent de Paul
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls… — George Eliot
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. — Anna Freud
It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it… — Anne Frank
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors… — W G Sebald
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain… — Henry David Thoreau
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot… — E L Doctorow
Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. — Owen Feltham
Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the… — Mickey Kaus
There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent,… — Louis Bromfield
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and… — Kabir
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent,… — Susan Sontag
Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor. — Phyllis McGinley

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