Top Discontent Quotes

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

Discontent Definition

(a.) Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.

(v. t.) To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.

(n.) Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.

(n.) A discontented person; a malcontent.

The tedium of existence and feeling imprisoned in a deplorable job can cause a person to consider the most expedient escape route from suffering including flirting with suicide. Fernando Pessoa wrote...

Even envy, wants to even the score.

Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.

The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy

Well, I should like to see you go to college, Anne, but if you never do, don't grow discontented about it. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... college can only help us do it more easil...

But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a yearning for values we can commonly embrace. I hear an almost inaudible but p...

It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?

There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing tha...

Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane, it defies the gravity of an entire planet by explo...

Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he doesn't know who Coriolanus is. That since you moved in you've noticed he rarely reads. He w...

I was born to other things.

Now is the Winter of our discontent.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world...

The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways.