Top 100 Never Content Quotes
#1. Secrets always come up for air. They're never content to stay buried for long.
Kristy Cambron
#3. Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.
Alison Fell
#4. Read to your heart's content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content.
Jenny Hubbard
#5. Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.
Martin Amis
#6. Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.
Charles Spurgeon
#7. Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
Hannah Arendt
#8. These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
Rudyard Kipling
#9. Saving a single wondrous thing is better than saving the world. For one thing, it's more achievable. The world is never content to stay saved.
T. Kingfisher
#10. I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.
Karl Lagerfeld
#11. As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.
J. Cole
#12. (Ben) Franklin was never content to let opportunity find him.
H.W. Brands
#13. But we're never content with living well if we think we can live better.
Jacob Grimm
#14. Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Camille Paglia
#15. It never occurs to us that looking for the definition, origin, and nature of consciousness
within the content of consciousness itself is the equivalent of searching
a movie for a view of the camera man.
William Tedford
#16. Cosmetic decoration, which frequently distorts the data, will never salvage an underlying lack of content.
Edward R. Tufte
#17. Often, you know.' 'I don't know,' said the Caterpillar. Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like
Lewis Carroll
#18. We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.
Charles Eisenstein
#19. As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when the other would move out of that love. It was the greatest paradox: Souls need each other, but they also need to not need each other.
Lauren Kate
#20. I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
Simon Armitage
#21. A sack that can contain a person's greed ... doesn't exist in this world. If your hearts not content, no matter how much you put in the sack, it's never enough.
Seo Do-young
#22. No longer dependent on 30 second spots, today's marketers need a never-ending stream of content.
David Louis Edelman
#23. And yet never had she felt herself more totally committed to a will which was not her own, more totally a slave, and more content to be so. When
Pauline Reage
#24. Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Dorothy Parker
#25. A person content to be bland will never be anyone's first choice as a companion for an idle afternoon.
Nancy Moser
#26. The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does."
Dave Hickey
#27. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley
#28. Forever be happy, never be content, and always know the difference.
Hal Elrod
#29. It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred ...
Virginia Woolf
#30. If you are searching for your purpose in life then you're never going to be satisfied. This life will never satisfy you. You'll never be happy and you'll never be content. The only really contentment or true happiness is with Christ.
Mark Teixeira
#31. I'm sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for the lunch bell. I wish them well. They have, however, never been the subjects of novels, and in all likelihood, will never be.
Michael Cunningham
#32. The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.
Craig Mundie
#33. I've learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I'm alone and I've never been so content.
Melinda Salisbury
#35. He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.
Laozi
#36. I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.
John Steinbeck
#37. A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius
#38. Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.
C.J. Mahaney
#39. I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.
Sylvia Plath
#40. There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is
William George Jordan
#41. [35] Caelum non animum mutant The man who is not content where he is, would never have been content somewhere else, though he might have complained less. Donal Grant, ch. 31
George MacDonald
#42. Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
Francesco Guicciardini
#43. But sing, when you must, of great lovers:
their fame has a long way to go before it's really immortal.
Those you almost envied, the unrequited, whom you found
more loving than the gratified, the content -
begin again and again the praise you can never fully express.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#44. Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles - content with this one thing: that our King [Jesus] will never leave us destitute, but will provide for our needs until, our warfare ended, we are called to triumph.
John Calvin
#45. You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give them a stranger's life, and then they're content.
Karen Lord
#46. Form and content must never apologize for each other.
Scott McCloud
#48. I want to keep improving, continue to help my teammates improve, make my teammates look good. Continue bringing something new to the game, never getting completely content and always trying to get better.
Alex Morgan
#49. ...despite the rain, I felt I had never been more content. I had gold, a friend, a horse, and brandy. I could envisage no end to my life but a bullet, yet even if I never had more than this, it would be enough.
Cherie Pugh
#50. For myself I never plan the way I deliver a message. I do prepare the content, and then I open my mouth and give it. And so the expression, the gestures, the emphasis on words, all of that just comes.
Anne Graham Lotz
#51. A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
J.C. Ryle
#52. With scripts I've always looked at them and thought about kids, you know? Thought about the world and the impact ... I won't do nudity and I never felt comfortable with that whole idea or things with huge sexual content - not my thing.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#53. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
William Osler
#54. I have never understood them," he said. "Those two creatures I see everywhere, stumping along the ground, first one and then the other. I have never been content with the current explanation that they were my feet.
G.K. Chesterton
#55. I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.
Robert Wilson
#56. The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but they never doubted that its content was borrowed from the content of the object, still less that the object really existed.
Etienne Gilson
#57. When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.
Archie Panjabi
#58. I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.
Randy Johnson
#59. But most people are content with a life among shadows. They give no thought to what is casting the shadows. They think shadows are all there are, never realizing even that they are, in fact, shadows. And thus they pay no heed to the immortality of their own soul.
Jostein Gaarder
#60. The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Lucretius
#61. I lived in the royal library, among all the books."
"You resided in a ... library?"
"There were suites inside and great balconies that overlooked the city, but yes. I was most content among those shelves, so one night, I simply never left.
Kresley Cole
#62. The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.
Adolf Hitler
#63. We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think about books? How will books become meaningful in their lives except as yet another form of digitalized content? A book is not just digitalized content.
Jeanette Winterson
#64. I've never looked through his stuff and I can't explain exactly why it is I'm so incurious. I suppose there are clues about his life there in the shut-up-and-locked room, perhaps even some traces of my mother, but better to be content with ignorance, I've always thought, than haunted by the truth.
Sara Baume
#65. The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection - and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.
Richard Rohr
#66. Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.
Robert M. Pirsig
#67. Couldst thou in vision see, thyself the man God meant, thou never then could be, the man thou art content.
Augustus Hopkins Strong
#68. Start with today. Don't be down, discouraged or disappointed when tomorrow never seems to bring what we want. Be content with what God chooses to bless us with today.
Tony Yang
#69. I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.
Terry Gross
#70. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.
Neil Gaiman
#71. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
Chuck Palahniuk
#72. Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.
Debra Lawrance
#74. She knew she had never been truly alive until she met him, and never so happy and content with her lot until she was touched by the sorrow of him.
Martine Leavitt
#75. [ ... ] to be absolutely modern means: never to question the content of modernity and to serve it as one serves the absolute, that is, without hesitation.
Milan Kundera
#76. If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
John Henry Newman
#77. To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer, yet never letting him hear an example of the composer's music.
John R. Pierce
#78. The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.
Kim Cattrall
#79. I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.
Charlie Weis
#80. Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"
Emily Yoffe
#81. I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#82. Never be content to wear a cloak of religion. Be all that you profess. Though you may err, be real. Though you may stumble, be true. Keep this principle continually before your eyes, and it will be well with your soul throughout your journey from grace to glory.
J.C. Ryle
#83. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
Albert Camus
#84. We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.
Jerome K. Jerome
#85. Never build your content ship on rented land.
Jay Baer
#86. The 'serial kisser' tag that has been thrust on to me is a lame stereotype. It irritates me. Yes, there is sexual content in my movies, and I have never been apologetic about doing bold scenes. But it's not fair to tag me this way because that can be very stifling.
Emraan Hashmi
#87. To grow in your passion for what Jesus has done, increase your understanding of what He has done.
Never be content with your grasp of the gospel. The gospel is life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than any diamond. Its depths man will never exhaust.
C.J. Mahaney
#88. Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.
Margaret Weis
#89. But there we are. Some things never do make perfect sense. There must be some explanation, and it is perhaps a little like the Doctrine of the Perfect Partner. We must be content to know that she exists, somewhere in the world, and try not to care overmuch that we will probably never meet her.
Iain M. Banks
#90. I wish all this never had to change, says Rafiq, unexpectedly.
I'm pleased he's content and sad that a kid so young knows that nothing lasts.
David Mitchell
#91. Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-
a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.
Rabih Alameddine
#92. Only those with no ambition and the inability to truly understand power are happy without it. They live in their little bubbles, never suspecting that there is more in the world. They are content to just exist. I want to do more than exist; I want to create, to destroy, to evolve." ~Lorsan
Quinn Loftis
#93. It was before him again in its completeness
the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which never arrived at wit and the freedom of act which never made for romance.
Edith Wharton
#94. If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.
Giacomo Leopardi
#96. The problem is we're looking for something that doesn't exist. We're looking for authenticity. There is no such thing as authenticity. There is either good art or bad art. Art is never about its content. It's about its scaffolding.
Chris Abani
#97. 'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
Elvis Costello
#98. MISSION EARTH
You can never be content as long as the very purpose of coming to Earth is not fulfilled - that of making your mind unshakeable, loving, pure, obedient and integrated.
Sirshree
#99. I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
Graham Greene
#100. I'm not suffering Trisha, I've never suffered all these years, someone long back taught me by example that its very easy to be content with one's solitude. I've enjoyed mine all these years.
Dixy Gandhi
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