Best 92 quotes in «discontent quotes» category

We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.

When discontent sets in it's time to make some changes. In a world where so much is possible, yet so many people are unhappy, there has to be another way.

Whenever you create anything, you take a risk. And that includes your life. It may work out, it may not. It may be well received, it may not be. . . . It's always a risk to take action. It might not work, it might blow up in your face, you might lose money, you might fail. No one may get it. But that's not the only risk. There's another risk: the risk of not trying it. How is not trying a risk? You risk settling and continuing in the same direction in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul.

Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressive and come out of it and write, and enjoy writing and feeling as if I have a passion and excitement and love and euphoria for it and then I go 'back to sleep again' where I can eat and watch television and not work, not be productive and then just as if a magic switch is turned on I can do it all over again. I don't mind the being depressed part. Sometimes it seems to fuel me. The anger though is gone now that was there in my twenties and even earlier in my youth. Your voice is Tolstoy’s, Hemingway’s, Updike’s, Styron’s, Mcewan’s, Greene’s, Fugard’s, Kundera’s, Rilke’s while I am the incarnate of Radcliffe Hall crossing both genders effortlessly. You betray nothing. There is son in the picture. A small boy but you don’t introduce him to me. Obsessions are unhealthy creatures. They make you mentally ill, emotionally unstable; leave you with a chemistry of deep sadness in your life. I have my writing. It keeps me from disintegrating into fractions. I should stop now before I begin to make myself cry.

You don't much like anything, do you?" "No, nothing," said Anna, smiling her nice fat malign smile.

You’re not discontent for wanting to be in a relationship, you’re just human.

Discontent is the catalyst for change.

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Why did no one satisfy her? What was she looking for that she couldn't find? Her battered heart offered her no answers.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

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

Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

literature is the record of our discontent.

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate.

Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

What is more miserable than discontent?

Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.

And sigh that one thing has been lent To youth and age in common_discontent

What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the literary marketplace. It is distracting and can lead to discontent.

As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.

Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he doesn't know who Coriolanus is. That since you moved in you've noticed he rarely reads. He will give you a hurt, hungry-to-learn look, with his James Cagney eyes. He will try to kiss you. Turn your head. Feel suffocated. (from "How")

...before there can be change there must be discontent.

Being happy is harder than being discontent. For happiness we have to roll up our sleeves and knock down houses of cards. Because of this exertion, many prefer to abide by ‘fake’ happiness.( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " )

What I would say to the establishment is that there is far more discontent among the American people than they believe.

And what we will all be seeking when we decamp, and for the rest of our lives, will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity. We thought we could do without tribes and clans. Well, we can't.

An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day.

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired. Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly, and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire.

But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

But now he knew: you always sacrificed something. The question was what you sacrificed.

Discontent has a creative force in it.

Discontent comes from two sources alone: Not having dreams, or not pursuing the ones you have. No one has ever died sorry who tried to turn a wish into a memory.