Quotes About Discontent

And I am not being frivolous now, either. Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become.

It's all shit," he had muttered in English, and felt better.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.