Pleasant if one considers it,
To own that death itself must be,
Like all the rest, a mockery.
Shelley (The Sensitive Plant).
I should like to make every man, woman, and child discontented with themselves, even as I am discontented with myself. I should like to waken in them, about their physical, their intellectual, their moral condition, that divine discontent which is the parent, first of upward aspiration and then of self-control, thought, effort to fulfil that aspiration even in part. For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
Charles Kingsley (The Science of Health, 1872).
The origin of the expression “divine discontent.”
He first deceas’d; she for a little tried