Quotes About Discontentment

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she was soft.

Good-bye, Davita. Be discontented with the world. But be respectful at the same time.

We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.

Yet she knew too that she was deeply discontented and she sometimes suffered fierce feral moods of confused yearning during which it seemed to her that her whole life was a masquerade and that she was piously acting the part of a kindly affectionate serviceable woman who was just not herself.

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.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply cherished grievances.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

If you're living a nice lifestyle and you have no problems, you put on our record, you won't get it.

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

Chuck Palahniuk "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War, No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is not greater disaster than greed.

the people, on account of this thing over and above all, might rebel and do harm.

Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have their head examined. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.

When people hate their government , it is easy to take it down

São poucas as pessoas de quem eu gosto realmente e mais restrito ainda o número daquelas de quem eu faço um bom juízo. Quanto mais conheço o mundo, maior é o meu descontentamento por ele; e cada dia confirma a minha crença na inconsistência de todos os caracteres humanos e na pouca confiança susceptível de ser depositada na aparência quer do mérito como do bom senso.

I loathe nowheres - airports and bland hotels. I would rather be in an unpleasant, uncomfortable place rather than one just adrift, floating around.

He hated going back to himself as he would have hated putting on a shabby suit of clothes, a grease-spotted, unpressed suit of clothes that had not been very good even when it was new.

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!