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Quotes About Discontent

Estaba harta de contemplar desde abajo los vellos de la nariz del resto de la humanidad.
~ Isabel Allende
Se sentía agobiado por la imbecilidad de la raza humana.
~ Isabel Allende
I think there is this about the great troubles - they teach us the art of cheerfulness; whereas the small ones cultivate the industry of discontent.
~ Mary Adams
They sicken of calm, who know the storm.
~ Dorothy Parker
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
~ C. V. Wedgwood
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
~ Thomas A. Edison
As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.
~ John Knox
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Now is the Winter of our discontent.
~ William Shakespeare
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
~ Johann von Goethe
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.
~ Albanian Proverb
One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
~ Robert Byrne
I'm never satisfied. I don't think about what has come before because I'm trying to find something different than I did before.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
One night I went to this comedy club and paid a hard-earned $5 to get in, and every comic that came up was dry as an old turkey wishbone, as in not even close to being funny. When you're broke and you pay $5 to see somebody, you want them to be funny.
~ Eddie Griffin
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
~ Molly Ringwald
I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just can't make it past ten minutes of anything.
~ David Berman
I have to have everything. I have to have iPads. I've had I think every generation of iPod. I've had all the consoles at least once; I've had some of them twice. I get them and get fed up with them and get rid of them.
~ Kristian Nairn
The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.
~ T. S. Eliot
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.
~ Lilith Saintcrow