92 Quotes About Discontent

His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today.

Why was it that, so often, no matter what he was doing, no matter what he was seeing, no matter what he was feeling, he wanted to be doing, to be seeing, to be feeling, something else?

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

She was thinking of the advantages she would have if only she were someone else.

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings from the situation closing in around me.

Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness the effervescence of hope and organize the contemptuous sneer of discontentment.