Discontent Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Discontent.
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“Contentment”
“Disappointment”
“I was born to other things.”
“Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.”
“Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not.”
“The best things beyond their measure cloy.”
“Æstuat infelix angusto limite mundi.”
“Past and to come seem best; things present worst.”
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
“And from the discontent of man
The world's best progress springs.”
“In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed, and the boldest staggered.”
“We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.”
“I know a discontented gentleman,
Whose humble means match not his haughty mind.”
“And sigh that one thing only has been lent
To youth and age in common,—discontent.”
“I see your brows are full of discontent,
Your hearts of sorrow and your eyes of tears.”
“To sigh, yet feel no pain,
To weep, yet scarce know why;
To sport an hour with Beauty's chain,
Then throw it idly by.”
“Qui fit, Mæcenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem,
Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa
Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.”
“The thirst to know and understand,
A large and liberal discontent;
These are the goods in life's rich hand,
The things that are more excellent.”
“How is it Maecenas, that no one lives contented with his lot, whether he has planned it for himself or fate has flung him into it, but yet he praises those who follow different paths?”