Quotes about Discontent
you know you have the very same idea of sacredness of assumed responsibilities yourself. And you are right. Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life — the secret of all the unrest and discontent that is seething in the world.
- LM Montgomery
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.
- Aesop
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
- Milan Kundera
I find that the same Hebrew word which signifies to lodge, to abide, signifies to murmur. They use one word for both, for murmuring is a disorder that lodges in men; where it gets in once it lodges, abides and continues, and therefore, that we may dislodge it and get it out, we will labor to show what are the further reasonings of a discontented heart.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
- Aldous Huxley
Has your worship or devotional experience lately provided you with ravishing tastes of what A. W. Tozer called the "piercing sweetness" 7 of Christ, only to leave you with a divine discontent that desires more?
- Donald Whitney
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
- Ronald Reagan
I can't get no satisfaction…I can't get no girl reaction.
- Anonymous
I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
- Virginia Woolf
Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
- Ann Voskamp
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
- Mark Twain