Discontent Quote by Hermann Hesse

“His face was still smarter and more spiritual than others, but it rarely laughed, and assumed, one after another, those features which are so…

— Hermann Hesse

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his…

— Philip Pullman

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“And now he had acquired the wisdom to admit that sometimes experienced his disdain for “weak, sick people” because he was frightened by any…

— James C. Coyne

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted…

— Louisa May Alcott

“the outlines of his figure were indistinct—but his features were the features of a deity; for the mantle of the night, and of the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and…

— Hermann Hesse

“The causes of his embitterment were many, remote and near. He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish…

— James Joyce

“Since he’d been born rich into a family that had been a long time rich, he’d never known the need to suppress his feelings,…

— Donald E. Westlake

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton