“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.”
John Steinbeck
“To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.”
Charles Kingsley
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation”
Oscar Wilde
“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Discontent is the seed of ethics”
Friedrich Nietzsche
