Your Unhappiness Quotes

#1. I think people get bored of grief," said Natasha. "It's like you're allowed some unspoken allotted time - six months maybe - and then they get faintly irritated that you're not 'better,' like you're being self-indulgent hanging on to your unhappiness.

Jojo Moyes

#2. It's an illusion to believe that you can be happy when no one else is. Or that other people will not be affected by your unhappiness.

John Brockman

#3. My dearest girl, dearer to me than anything in life, if you are unhappy, let me share your unhappiness. If you are in need of help or counsel, let me try to give it to you. If you have indeed a burden on your heart, let me try to lighten it. For whom do I live now, Agnes, if it is not for you!

Charles Dickens

#4. Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

Mason Cooley

#6. If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.

Robert Breault

#7. The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.

Harold Klemp

#8. My first recommendation ... will be that you should have a holiday. You are worn out by all your unhappiness.

Susan Howatch

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. But it's scary, isn't it? Not having something to hate and blame for all your unhappiness.

Carolyn Brown

#13. When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

Andrew Sullivan

#15. What is wrong with enjoying yourself? What is wrong in being happy? If there is anything wrong it is always in your unhappiness, because an unhappy person creates ripples of unhappiness all around him. Be happy!

Rajneesh

#16. Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

Gretchen Rubin

#17. Do not blame others for your unhappiness, for everything is due to cause and effect.

Hsing Yun

#18. My unhappiness precluded all else; unhappiness is a kind of narcissism, in which nothing that does not resonate with your unhappiness can interest you.

Caroline Kettlewell

#19. Love. Yes. That's what I feel for you. Your smile makes me happy and your pain makes me hurt with you. Your unhappiness makes me unhappy. Your body makes me ache and you make me hard with need to be inside you. You are always on my mind and when I am not with you, I want you with me.

Laurann Dohner

#20. If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful

Dennis Prager

#21. Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

Fulton J. Sheen

#22. A cute nickname was the first mile marker on Gag Highway, heading straight to Relationshipville. And making up the names of fake roads and cities to express your unhappiness was probably the first step to insanity.

Emma Mills

#23. 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

#24. [On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

Martha Gellhorn

#25. You make such beautiful poetry out of what you call your love and your unhappiness. Marriage would be such a dull affair in comparison.

Orna Ross

#26. 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

#27. It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

Charles Spurgeon

#28. 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

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

Osho

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

Eckhart Tolle

#33. Each day, wake up with a plan. Don't just approach your days in an unfocused void. That state of mind leaves too much room for discontent, opposition, unhappiness and hopelessness.

Carlos Wallace

#34. And if you must sacrifice yourself, do that by marrying me. I'm not an easy man. You'll earn your martyr's crown before you're done. Don't condemn both of us to an eternity of unhappiness just because you're too stiff-necked to face society's censure.

Anna Campbell

#35. Saying you just want your kid to be happy puts enormous pressure on the child. They feel if they're not happy, they're failing. Periods of unhappiness are okay and our kids need to know that; it's the struggle that makes you who you are.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#36. Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#37. Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

Eckhart Tolle

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

Dee Dee Artner

#39. I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

Tennessee Williams

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. When you put limits on yourself, you become unhappy! And your belief mostly puts limits on yourself; it puts limits on your clothes, on your thoughts, on your actions! Free yourself from such artificial limits! Otherwise you will feel a deep unhappiness inside you when you see a free person!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#43. One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.

David Cottrell

#44. Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!

Jennifer O'Neill

#45. You get comfortable, even when you're unhappy, don't you think? Sometimes, it's really hard to take charge of your own unhappiness

Cat Porter

#46. Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.

Swami Satchidananda

#47. Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you?

Frederick Lenz

#48. 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

#49. Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day. There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over, when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#50. Moments of sadness, grief, unhappiness and lack of motivation are results of stepping back, just move on and challenge your limits, you will do it.

Santosh Kalwar

#51. If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself.

Bryant McGill

#52. The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

Eckhart Tolle

#53. All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

Ramana Maharshi

#54. Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

Jacob M. Appel

#55. Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.

Aesop

#56. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle

#57. Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

Catherine The Great

#58. Maybe the reason people avoid you is because the emotions your brain sends out when you click are kind of... negative emotions?

Maybe you're clicking unhappiness at people, and they're sending it back in echoes.

Leah Thomas

#59. To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another person's unhappiness. Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.

Chica Umino

#60. Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others' happiness.

Rajneesh

#61. Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.

Frederick Lenz

#62. Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don't add to their unhappiness.

Rajneesh

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

Brian Tracy

#64. Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it.

Marty Rubin

#65. There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Anthony De Mello

#66. Your problem is that you don't know how to be happy with unhappiness.

Anthony Breznican

#67. [Unhappiness] comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

Jamaica Kincaid

#68. I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

Sigmund Freud

#69. Whatever feelings you have within you are attracting your tomorrow. Worry attracts more worry. Anxiety attracts more anxiety. Unhappiness attracts more unhappiness. Dissatisfaction attracts more dissatisfaction.

Rhonda Byrne

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. Mind makes you happy, mind makes you unhappy. When you are unhappy, the solution is there, in your mind, not in somewhere else!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#73. Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you.

Eckhart Tolle

#74. In accepting that suffering is a part of your daily existence, you could begin by examining the factors that normally give rise of feelings of discontent and mental unhappiness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#75. today's heavy emphasis on competition and humiliation of your "opponent" (whether in sports, business, or family), our culture sets men up for anger and unhappiness.

Thomas J. Harbin

#76. Love is a combination of virtues. The amount you receive from someone is based on the percentage of those virtues learned and applied. Unhappiness in a relationship is not a lack of love, but a lack of virtues in the percentages your significant other needs.

Shannon L. Alder

#77. Your thoughts always create your emotions. Understanding the significance of this fact is the first step in escaping from unhappiness and depression.

Richard Carlson

#78. To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about.

James Clavell

#79. Unhappiness slowly creeps up on you, like a shape-shifting monster waiting in the darkness of your hallway, his bulging eyes watching your every move. The breath on his slimy tongue makes the hairs on your neck stand up.

Kate Rockland

#80. I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

Marcus Brigstocke

#81. Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

Eckhart Tolle

#82. Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has been scattered in your midst he has had to maintain a continuous struggle for the conservation of his identity.

Maurice Samuel

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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