Top 100 Quotes About Unhappiness
#1. I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.
Susanna Kaysen
#2. I hated Hollywood. It's a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns, where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.
Grace Kelly
#3. Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it
Mason Cooley
#4. Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty; richness with unhappiness is not a real richness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we're depriving them of happiness as adults?
Lori Gottlieb
#8. If my joy hung in the balance of having everything I wanted, I would always wrestle with unhappiness. There
Tessa Afshar
#9. We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness.
Iyanla Vanzant
#10. Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#11. 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
#13. You will not able to find peace if you are the source of unhappiness for others.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
P. J. O'Rourke
#15. I knew I'd get over this. People broke up with each other every day and you didn't see them falling down and dying of unhappiness. But unhappiness didn't kill you that way. It was a slow malignancy that stole your hope. You didn't fall over dead, you faded away into nothingness.
Denise Grover Swank
#16. When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.
Frederick Lenz
#18. He disapproved of the metaphor: he wanted to tell her that one shouldn't compare one's personal unhappiness to the most horrible crime in history.
Brian Morton
#19. Morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
Jean Rhys
#20. It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.
Tom Perrotta
#21. There is no disease more to be dreaded than madness. For what greater unhappiness can befall a man than to be deprived of his reason and understanding.
Richard Mead
#22. Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
Don Herold
#23. To deny equality to one is to deny equality for all.
We won't find joy by misplacing our unhappiness onto others.
Love cannot be defined, assigned or mitigated.It's not something to be controlled or dictated.
Love is uncontrollable and limitless.
Tosha Michelle
#24. 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.
#25. Neither good nor ill is done to us by Fortune: she merely offers us the matter and the seeds: our soul, more powerful than she is, can mould it or sow them as she pleases, being the only cause and mistress of our happy state or our unhappiness.
Michel De Montaigne
#26. Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
Sophocles
#27. When women cook, they're not just doing it for sustenance. An expression of rage and unhappiness and desire and sadness and pleading and pain may lurk in their dishes. Of course, the best kind is food filled with love.
Kyung-ran Jo
#28. Happiness is realized only in the face of unhappiness
Jean Sasson
#29. The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.
Bertrand Russell
#30. Life is full of choices," Miguel said sweetly. "Do you want to choose unhappiness?
Miguel Ruiz
#31. The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.
Jim Rohn
#32. If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.
Ernest Holmes
#33. Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
Elsa Maxwell
#34. A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#35. If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
#36. Unhappiness comes when we feel helpless. Hope comes the minute we decide we are not.
Toni Sorenson
#37. Perhaps I didn't voice my unhappiness soon enough; rather, I spent more time feeling like a disappointment and scrambling to patch our cracks than I did considering whether he required an unreasonable level of tending.
Padma Lakshmi
#39. Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness.
Marquis De Sade
#40. I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.
Carl Hilty
#41. One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.
Jo Coudert
#42. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
Eckhart Tolle
#43. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
Charles Spurgeon
#48. You're very passionate about your unhappiness aren't you, Chris?' I responded with, If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Laura Buzo
#49. 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
#50. Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.
Mason Cooley
#51. Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.
Mason Cooley
#52. 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
#53. The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.
Paulo Coelho
#54. I have learned that trying to control other people's opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.
Dan Pearce
#55. I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.
Monica Ali
#56. Have you ever had to get through a day, smiling at people, talking, as if everything were normal and okay, while all the time you felt like you were carrying a leaden weight of unhappiness inside you?
Andrew Klavan
#57. 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
#58. ,,, let go of the real source of our unhappiness: our own self-obsession. Stress, loneliness, pessimism, financial worries, and unhappy relationships all have one thing in common: they're all about "me".
David Michie
#59. I have an idea. Why don't we build a house honoring the Lord and go inside and close the doors and never come out again." Though she jested, he saw the desperate unhappiness in her eyes. "What light can shine from a closed house, beloved? God wants us in the world, not hiding from it." Her
Francine Rivers
#60. Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.
Alice Hoffman
#61. You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.
James Hillman
#62. We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it ...
Rajneesh
#63. Too much happiness, too much unhappiness, out of due time, men are thrown off balance. What will they do next? Thought runs wild. No control. They start everything, finish nothing. Here competition begins, here the idea of excellence is born, and robbers appear in the world.
Thomas Merton
#64. Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us. I
Eric Metaxas
#65. The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.
Frederick Lenz
#66. Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.
Bella Pollen
#67. The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.
D.H. Lawrence
#68. The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#69. 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
#70. The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.
Andrew Weil
#71. 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
#72. All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
Blaise Pascal
#73. These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.
Charles Dickens
#74. Do you think ... "
He raised his eyebrows. "Do I think what?"
"That Valentine might have drowned?"
"Never believe the bad guy is dead until you see a body," said Simon. "That just leads to unhappiness and surprise ambushes.
Cassandra Clare
#75. Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.
Robert Kiyosaki
#76. He himself didn't see it as exceptionally altruistic, because he had understood one can't be truly happy in isolation or, worse, among unhappy people. The best protection against danger, unhappiness and the sordidness of human existence is to be surrounded by people who love you.
Andrew Ashling
#77. What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
Chris Prentiss
#78. All your
emotions were so intense - your anger like daggers, your unhappiness a poisoned well. Even
your love had such sharp corners and dark alleys.
Sherry Thomas
#79. If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
Epictetus
#80. Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
Madeleine L'Engle
#81. There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.
William Shakespeare
#82. Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.
Ken Wilber
#83. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
Albert Camus
#84. I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant, hard-won behavioral leap that, sadly, a staggering percent of the population of folks I know haven't quite mastered.
Keith Murray
#85. The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.
Alfred North Whitehead
#86. It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
Gordon W. Allport
#87. But it's scary, isn't it? Not having something to hate and blame for all your unhappiness.
Carolyn Brown
#88. When I'm creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.
Nino Rota
#89. And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And it was like giving four sharp knocks at the door of unhappiness.
Albert Camus
#90. Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?
Steve Goodier
#91. Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
Francis Bacon
#92. A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now.
Eckhart Tolle
#93. What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
Logan Pearsall Smith
#94. 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
#95. There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#97. Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.
Frederick Lenz
#98. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#99. So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
Graham Greene
#100. We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
B.K.S. Iyengar
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