Frank Herbert Quotes

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

One thing I don't like is complaints.

In regards to the reaction to Life Is Killing Me, I would say that I'm never happy about anything.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

May we not look for Discontent, Mistrust, Disaffection to Government and frequent Insurrections?

Such violent propensity have men to complain of the present times.

Nothing is more certain than that improvement in human affairs is wholly the work of the uncontented characters.

The secret of progress, the perpetual satisfying of wants followed by the springing up of new wants, is the secret of individual unrest and disappointment.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

… discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

People like to complain.

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars.

I always complain.

I think people like to have something to have a moan about.