Our Discontents Quotes
7 quotes by 5 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
— Daniel Defoe
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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 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
Who Wrote These Our Discontents Quotes
5 authors contributed a total of 7 Our Discontents Quotes as follows: