Discontent Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free…

— Max Muller

“He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

— David Guerrero

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

— Aristotle

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

— Viktor E. Frankl

“The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.”

— Thomas Merton

“Thus, in the realm of human relationships, a different form of pleasure is experienced, a different sort of motivation is involved, and a different…

— Ayn Rand

“It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happiness. Whatever is desired otherwise than as a means to…

— John Stuart Mill

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

— Horace

“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not,…

— Theodor Adorno