Discontented Quotes
Never quite satisfied, always reaching.
Discontentment shows up here as a very human trait, one that pushes people to reach the moon and then want Mars next. Writers compare this restlessness to trees, which never seem discontented despite being rooted in place. For a lighter counterpoint, see our Be Happy quotes.
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars.
About Quotes
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented...
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Always Quotes
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
