Money Unhappiness Quotes

#1. I sing of happiness, he says, and insecurity shows through
poisons it. I sing of unhappiness, and it spoils that, too, because my real unhappiness isn't great or noble but cheap
money unhappiness.
$10,000 a Year, Easy

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. One is shy of asking men under sentence what they have been sentenced for; and in the same way it is awkward to ask very rich people what they want so much money for, why they make such a poor use of their wealth, why they don't give it up, even when they see in it their unhappiness;

Anton Chekhov

#3. She herself had never had enough money and never enough time and hadn't even been unhappy once, in contrast to those she called refined gentlemen, who always had enough money and enough time and constantly talked about their unhappiness. She

Thomas Bernhard

#4. Everybody can adore you because you're on television, but at the end of the day, when you're no longer on TV, who's still there? It's family.

Roland Martin

#5. they'd followed their best instincts and based their lives on the premise that money couldn't buy happiness, learning only gradually the many varieties of unhappiness it might have staved off. Russell

Jay McInerney

#6. Ralston stiffened at the reference to the stupid wager that caused so much pain and unhappiness. He ignored Oxford's proffered hand, and instead met the baron's concerned gaze, and said, Keep the money. I have her. She's all I want.

Sarah MacLean

#7. If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.

Tony Hsieh

#8. Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.

Barbara Hutton

#9. A strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable.

R. Scott Bakker

#10. I have a terrible memory.

Dorothy Allison

#11. Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.

Nick Hornby

#12. 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.

#13. Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Ayn Rand

#14. Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.

Robert Kiyosaki

#15. I can't promise you that money will bring you happiness, because it didn't do it for me.
But the lack of it, for sure, will bring you unhappiness.
Money buys you options and security. Without options and security your soul cannot soar and be free.
From my Upcoming book

Celso Cukierkorn

#16. Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

Robertson Davies

#17. 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

#18. Money can't buy happiness, but it allows one to endured unhappiness in relative comfort.

Stephen King

#19. Both money and health contribute to happiness mostly in the negative; the lack of them brings much more unhappiness than possessing them brings happiness.
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Gretchen Rubin

#20. The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don't think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#21. Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

Judy Davis

#22. You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

Philip Kaufman

#23. Our wants always exceed our resources, and we believe that's the source of our unhappiness. Not so. Never was. No wonder we always feel stressed out and inadequate; we never make enough money to afford what we tell ourselves we need.

Anonymous

#24. Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

Nick Hornby

#25. One can acquire money, fame and distinction, but one cannot create happiness or unhappiness, not for oneself or for others. One can only accept what comes, although one can, to be sure, accept it in entirely different ways.

Hermann Hesse

#26. My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Elvis Costello

#27. It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

Anton Chekhov