Discontents Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early… — Thomas Jefferson
God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would… — Douglas Wilson
How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought,… — Bradford Morrow
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. — Edmund Leach
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
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even… — Josip Novakovich
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. — Daniel Defoe
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
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
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
Let thy discontents be thy secrets — Benjamin Franklin
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents. — Aldous Huxley

Who Wrote These Discontents Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 13 Discontents Quotes as follows: