Quotes About Discontent

I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable.

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

Been living on this earth for so long now and still don't know what a happy life feels like. I'm ready for a change.

For years I have read the morning paper and harrumphed. There's a lot to harrumph about now.

I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

How wrong and petty any life is.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

When expectations exceed reality, frustration is the result.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

Eventually we all get tired of any and everything!

To live unhappily, is failing life.

Inner turbulence leads to anger.

Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction.