Quotes About Discontent

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

I pushed away my dessert, suddenly no longer hungry. Resentment had a way of filling up your stomach.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Ugh, emotions.

I am tired of the whole concept of humans right now.

I can't do even the half-assed version of this stupid job if I have to talk to humans.

If you're not angry, then what's wrong?" I was definitely glaring now. "How do you want the list sorted? By time stamp or degree of survivability?

You dislike your function. I don't understand how that is possible.

Even the humans think about killing the humans, especially here. I hate mines, and mining, and humans who work in mining, and of all the stupid mines I can remember, I hate this stupid mine the most. But the humans hate it more.

The vanity and insatiability of the human heart are unspeakable. What a man has does not please him; what he does not have, that he yearns for.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Leser und Schreiber sind also uneinverstandene Leute. Leute, die sich nicht abgefunden haben. Noch nicht. Hätten sie sich abgefunden, wären sie zufrieden mit sich und allem, würden sie nicht mehr lesen und schreiben, sondern gingen andauernd in die Oper.

for the words had dampened his ardour irretrievably. It was just like being asked to drink nectar from a piss-pot. She

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.

I've had a lover's quarrel with the world

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...

When they did, she wore a dress, but she grumbled the whole time.

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things.

She wondered how many Dans there were in the world, dreaming of things they would hate if they actually got them.

Nora shook her head. Wishing it would fall off. Her own head. Onto the floor.

There was an inescapable feeling brewing in the darkness. Envy.