Quotes About Discontent

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York.

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,Than such a Roman.

meine tätigen Kräfte sind zu einer unruhigen Lässigkeit verstimmt, ich kann nicht müßig sein und kann doch auch nichts tun. Ich habe keine Vorstellungskraft, kein Gefühl an der Natur, und die Bücher ekeln mich an. Wenn wir uns selbst fehlen, fehlt uns doch alles. Ich schwöre dir, manchmal wünschte ich, ein Tagelöhner zu sein, um nur des Morgens beim Erwachen eine Aussicht auf den künftigen Tag, einen Drang, eine Hoffnung zu haben.

Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

People are not embracing Communism as Communism, but they are discontented, insecure and unsettled and they embrace anything that looks like it might be better than what they have to endure. . . . It is very easy for anybody who has a job and is getting along all right to cry for democracy . . . but if you cannot feed your children and you do not know where the next meal is coming from, nobody knows what kind of freak you will follow."13

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

In this light, I believe that one of the subtle forces producing a post-evangelicalism today is discontent with Jesus-according-to-US-white-evangelicalism.

Now before you all go off for your lovely hot baths, before you all piss off in your lovely new suits and your lovely flash card to your lovely new houses and your lovely young wives, you can all get down on your bloody hands and knees and look for my fucking watch!

in that moment I would have sold my soul to a tinker to be anywhere else.

Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

"Haters only hate things they can't have and the people they can't be. It's just a little thing called jealousy."

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

Envy yearns to find flaws.

Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me

Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy.

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.

Discontent is the spur of progress.

sansculottes

Tis a thankless world

Many people in the early 1960s shared a sense that things had gone horrifically wrong, without having a clear idea of how or when they would change.