Quotes About Discontent

What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life.

Full little knowest thou that hast not tried,What hell it is, in suing long to bide:To lose good days, that might be better spent;To waste long nights in pensive discontent;To speed today, to be put back tomorrow;To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow.

It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

Half the world is screaming for water and freedom when the other half is ordering cocktails and complaining about the service.

I can't get no satisfaction…I can't get no girl reaction.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

How does life get to be like this? Where she wears her sister's castoff underlinen and a thrice-patched dress while men like Kalaphates go about in silk and velvet with servants trotting behind? While foreigners like these have basins of milk and courtyards of geese and a different coat for every feast day? She feels a scream building inside her, a shriek to shatter glass.

In the dormitory window one night, Frederick rest his forehead against the glass. "I hate them. I hate them for that.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

I hated everything but punk for a long time.

I don't like London. I'm not happy here. I don't even own a flat here.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

We said to Frank Farian, 'You don't let us sing on the album. Don't do this anymore.' We don't want to live like this.

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.

I wasn't playing at Arsenal, and I was frustrated. I was doing everything I could do, looking after myself, scoring, and playing in the Europa League then when the cup came, but it wasn't enough for me, and I wanted more.

I'm a frustrated artist.

It's just really frustrating how people are just so selfish in this industry. It makes me very angry.

A fuel of discontent and anxiety is probably pretty central to the fuel at 'Scandal!'

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.