Best Discontent Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 8

“I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show. Just imagine what would happen if all eight of us were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces. Where would that get us?”

Ifs Knows World Feels Looks Long I Can Shows Happens Faces Young Walks Imagine Sorry Eight Visible Bike Discontent

Book:The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

“The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it.”

Mind States Suffering Millions Taken Becoming Civilization Mirrors Profound Illness Wide Realms Demon Testimony Astonishing Discontent

Author:W. G. Sebald

“Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?”

“Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.”

Men Nations Causes Greater Feminism Revolution Feminist Rebellion Womens Rights Equal Rights Discontent Uprising Women Rights

Book:HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

Source: HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

“Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.”

Whole Water Negativity Fountain Ink Discontent Blackness Water Fountain

Author:Owen Feltham

“Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?”

Government Running Politics Sides Realizing Unions Employee Voters Discontent Boxers Tsunami

Author:Mickey Kaus

“There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness.”

Light Certain Process Awareness Sorrow Shadow Satisfaction Rhythm Contrast Variation Richness Captured Discontent Light And Shadow

Author:Louis Bromfield

“Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.”

Men Humans Has Beens Order Progress Divine Revolution Affair Discontent Before And After

Author:Kabir

“In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.”

Made Feelings Spiritual Century Disease Madness Critical Superiors Insanity Vehicle Sensitivity Twentieth Century Discontent

Book:Illness as metaphor

Source: Illness as metaphor

“Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.”

Shapes Satisfaction Neighbor Discontent

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.”

Real Philosophy Hands Government Law Doctrine Aliens Citizenship Discontent Subversive Good Citizen Good Citizenship Breeders

Author:John L. Lewis

“90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?”

Heart Divorce Odd Discontent

Author:Bob Geldof

“There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.”

Way Action Protest Discontent Kremlin

Author:Garry Kasparov

“If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.”

Ifs Looks Mean War Use Culture Force Half Members Despair Endless Alternatives Tire Discontent Use Of Force Feuds Homicidal Bringing Peace Half Life

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.”

Has Beens Age Individual Enjoy Community Differences Degrees Good Things Theme Declaration Discontent

Author:William Herschel

Discontent Quotes

Related topics

Discontent Quotes