Anna Freud
Psychoanalyst
"Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself."
Discontent quotes
Discontent
30 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Laozi
Philosopher
"There is no greater disaster than discontent."
Aesop
Fabulist
"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"literature is the record of our discontent."
Tony Robbins
Author, Life Coach
"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."
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"The best things beyond their measure cloy."
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"Let thy discontents be thy secrets"
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"What is more miserable than discontent?"
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"The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent."
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"Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything."
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"Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent."
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"I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person."
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"Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast."
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"I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another."
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"Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships."
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