Life Unhappiness Quotes

#1. For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

Jane Gardam

#2. It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask.

Rita Zoey Chin

#3. Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#4. The lack of forgiveness and ingratitude leads unhappiness

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. I feel my life is sterile, I am unbloomed, unused, I have nothing I can have that I will ever want, only some love, only dearness and tenderness, to make me weep. I am moved now and sad and unhappy beyond cold unhappiness, beyond any inconvenience that will cause you by my affection.

Allen Ginsberg

#6. Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness?

Peter Hobbs

#8. My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

Erich Maria Remarque

#10. As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

Cofer Black

#11. I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combination of physical exhaustion and my unhappiness had made me hate and resent everything.

Osamu Dazai

#12. The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Robert Ringer

#13. He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

Graham Greene

#14. When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there's a lot I loved in television.

Robert Pinsky

#15. I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.

Storm Constantine

#16. So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

Brian Tracy

#18. While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity. And

Leo Tolstoy

#19. They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived - bound, in other words, for life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#20. Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness.

Frederick Lenz

#21. I began to think that he had just the right measure of unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life to be someone I could get along with.

Catherine Lacey

#22. Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

Eckhart Tolle

#23. Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set our foundations depper and reach higher toward the sky. If sadness is what makes us creative, then sadness is nothing else but life.

Eric G. Wilson

#24. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.

Salman Rushdie

#25. My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.

Sue Townsend

#26. If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

Brian Tracy

#27. A life without moments of unhappiness would be monotonous, I would have thought.

Alexander McCall Smith

#28. I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.

Laura Marling

#29. Yet again I was reminded that the way in which things and events unfold does not always coincide with our expectations. Indeed, this fact of life - that there is often a gap between the way in which we perceive phenomena and the reality of a given situation - is the source of much unhappiness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#30. Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy.

Salman Rushdie

#31. What if God wants us to be happy? What if there's nothing else around the bend? What if all our unhappiness is in the past and from here on out we get an uncomplicated life? Some people get that, you know. Why shouldn't it be us?

Cristina Henriquez

#32. In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly.

Ellis Peters

#33. The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

Mohammed Naseehu Ali

#34. She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?

Rachel Abbott

#35. It was incomprehensible that her entire life had been a carousel of unhappiness, drinking, failed promises, and loneliness, all turning around and around a single afternoon encounter with this man.

Joe Hill

#36. We alays blame the outer world for our failures, unhappiness and frustration. It is time to realise that it is health, harmony and wealth of our inner world that determine the degree of our success, joy, peace and bliss.

Vishwas Chavan

#37. You will never can find happiness if you're a reason for someone's unhappiness.

Debasish Mridha

#38. To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.

Frederick Lenz

#39. Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#40. Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes completely good and kind, and disbelieves in the very possibility of evil, unhappiness, and sorrow.

Leo Tolstoy

#41. Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.

Octavio Paz

#42. The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

Stendhal

#43. I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.

Eric Weiner

#44. Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents' divorce.

Richard Yates

#45. I believe," he said gently, "we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone else's. The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together.

Mary Balogh

#46. How to deal with problems in life. They are never asked for, but how we deal with them defines our future happiness or unhappiness.

David Michie

#47. Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock

If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy,
maybe you can grasp it.

Dick Allen

#48. Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.

Matthieu Ricard

#49. Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

W. Somerset Maugham

#50. The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

C. JoyBell C.

#51. Are you unhappy? Ok. Being unhappy is a part of life; no big deal! Continue your life because neither unhappiness nor happiness drop anchor in your life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#52. Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

Jim Berg

#53. Invest in your work life balance. Time with friends and family is as important as times at work. Getting that out of balance is a path toward unhappiness.

Stephen Gillett

#54. A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more your entertain unhappiness!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#55. The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

Pope John Paul II

#56. Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?

Maya Banks

#57. When you compromise your life, you compromise unhappiness.

Dee Dee Artner

#58. Now I know the reason for this chronic unhappiness spread all over the world: we all feel we are special.

Daya Kudari

#59. The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

Andre Maurois

#60. There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

Giacomo Casanova

#61. Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

Hanya Yanagihara

#62. There is a lot of unhappiness in this world. Try not to feed it.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#63. I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.

Chuck Klosterman

#64. I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.

Nina Berberova

#65. As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.

Eckhart Tolle

#66. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

Nick Hornby

#67. Unhappiness is only a change. Happiness itself is only change. So what does it matter? The great thing is to see life--to understand--to feel--to work--to fight--to endure.

Zane Grey

#68. Well, like there's no river without a bend, there's no life without its unhappiness.

Duong Thu Huong

#69. It's the hunger; the hunger for an alternative and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness...

Todd Field

#70. So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

Graham Greene

#71. I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life - and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

Rita Hayworth

#72. Life, then will, always contain an inevitable surplus, a margin of the gratuitous, a realm in which there is always more than we need: more things, more impressions, more memories, more habits, more words, more happiness, more unhappiness.

James Wood

#73. Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

Rajneesh

#74. No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

Gautama Buddha

#75. Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

David Lloyd-Jones

#76. When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

Terri Apter

#77. This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

M. E. W. Sherwood

#78. that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness

Devdutt Pattanaik

#79. Short term goals are often based on dissatisfaction, and actions based on dissatisfaction will eventually lead to a life of unhappiness.

Gudjon Bergmann

#80. If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won't find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)

Swami Satchidananda

#81. The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.

Osho

#82. The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

Sydney Smith

#83. It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

Stephen King

#84. Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

Ken Wilber

#85. These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.

Charles Dickens

#86. Life is from zero to one, sorrow to pain and love to happiness, passing all along with smile on face despite grief and unhappiness, deep below lies the quenching heart, which is flowing with energy and bloody rain.

Santosh Kalwar

#87. Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

Denis Diderot

#88. Physical manifestations of unhappiness are something we all experience; it's not a personality flaw or a sign of weakness, it's a part of life.

Suzanne O'Sullivan

#89. He is at once a great lazybones, pitifully ambitious, and famous for unhappiness; for his entire life he has had practically nothing but half-baked ideas. The sun of laziness, which ceaselessly glows within him, vaporizes him and gnaws away that half-genius that heaven bestowed upon him.

Charles Baudelaire

#90. Both sadness and anger are the two sides of same coin. Sadness is supressed anger, while anger is expressed sadness. Both sadness and anger are state of unhappiness, which are often because lack of self-love.

Vishwas Chavan

#91. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

Joseph Addison

#92. I suppose you don't stand much if a chance if you think that happiness us the absence of unhappiness,' he said. 'Good luck ever being happy, then.

Deb Caletti

#93. My unhappiness protects me from life.

Orhan Pamuk

#94. When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself
nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#95. Unhappiness comes when we feel helpless. Hope comes the minute we decide we are not.

Toni Sorenson

#96. Life is full of choices," Miguel said sweetly. "Do you want to choose unhappiness?

Miguel Ruiz

#97. Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

Robert S. Jepson Jr.

#98. You will not able to find peace if you are the source of unhappiness for others.

Debasish Mridha

#99. Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people
the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.

Shannon L. Alder

#100. Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

Iris Murdoch