Quotes About Discontent

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

Oh, God, the lovebirds," Magnus said, pulling the pillow off his face. "I hate happy couples.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

What, eBay isn't good enough for us?

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Great men grow tired of contentedness.

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.