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Quotes About Discontent

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
~ Jean Kerr
Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.
~ Ben Shapiro
Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.
~ Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.
~ Donald Barthelme
Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.
~ Nick Harkaway
A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.
~ Ray Davies
But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!
~ Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
~ Mark Twain
The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.
~ Cecil Rhodes
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.
~ Morrissey
How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dis-ing them anyhow?
~ Steven Wright
Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!And look around ...can you blame us?!
~ Morrissey
I've nothing against people. Just a***oles. But then, most people are.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
I made a noise of disgust, and I think I would have stormed out if I knew how to open the door.
~ Ash Gray, Qorth
No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.
~ Neil Peart
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
~ Florence Nightingale
Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
~ Eric Hoffer
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
~ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.
~ Anne Sexton
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries and many would never try if they were not forced to.
~ Basil W. Maturin
dude im starting to think that life is very unfair
~ Vishal Daryanani
You can be happy about a lot of things in your life, yet just one thing can make you miserable.
~ Jami Attenberg