Quotes About Discontent

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

No one is content with his own lot.

To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

Discontent is want of self-discipline; it is infirmity of will.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

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

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

I knew a man who succeeded in finding an evil word for everything he didn't have and everything he didn't understand.

She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar.

I've been irritated since I met you.

The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard. --Disgrace

Su habitación, que alguien pintó hace mucho tiempo de un deprimente color yema de huevo, nunca ha llegado a parecerle suya.

For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more fortunate than yourself.

She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. But no, she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.

Yeah." Rhage sighed. "All I want is one good female. But I guess I'll settle for quantity until I find her. Life just sucks, doesn't it?

And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.

Good. We're done." Wrath shook his head ruefully. "And shit, you think you have problems? At least you don't have to go back home with that." As

As V arrived back at the mansion with the King, he'd really just plain fucking had it with everyone. And that included himself. But

Her sex life was non-existent in the real world. In her imagination, however, it had flourished.