Unhappiness Quotes

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

None think the great unhappy but the great.

Edward Young

Sadness is a state of sin.

André Gide

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

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

Joseph Addison

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Don Herold

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

Blaise Pascal

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.

Carl Jung

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Don Marquis

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure.

Bertrand Russell

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Paul Bourget

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

Sophocles

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Tom Robbins

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Dr. Edward De Bono

By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so.

Madame Swetchine

Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.

H.L. Mencken

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A person whom is unhappy with life realizes that their construction of a self-image is incompatible with their earthly reality. An unhappy person must alter their internal or external world; otherwise, their sadness, sorrow, grief, and misery will remain unabated. Misery and desperation can lead to change, but only if a person is willing to learn, explore, and try.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Sometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.

Alan Heathcock

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

Javier Marías

There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own imprudence, by the reckless Salina pride; and now, just at the moment when her memories had come alive again after so many years, she found herself even without the solace of being able to blame her own unhappiness on others, a solace which is the last protective device of the desperate.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

T.C. Boyle

Misery can only be quelled but never cured.

Nina -

Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I’m over it.

Lauren Dane

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.

Shannon A. Thompson

I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never discovered it and was carried away by the allurements of empty, un-rewarding passions. I was tempered in their flames and came out cold and hard as steel, but I'd lost forever that fire of noble endeavour, that finest flower of life. How many time since then have I been an axe in the hands of fate? Like an engine of execution, I've descended on the heads of the condemned, often without malice, but always without pity. My love has brought no one happiness, for I've never sacrificed a thing for those I've loved. I've loved for myself, for my own pleasure, I've only tried to satisfy a strange inner need. I've fed on their feelings, love, joys and sufferings, and always wanted more. I'm like a starving man who falls asleep exhausted and sees rich food and sparkling wines before him. He rapturously falls on these phantom gifts of the imagination and feels better, but the moment he wakes up his dream disappears and he's left more hungry and desperate than before.

Mikhail Lermontov

One thing that gives meaning to our thinking, drive our understanding, and determines what makes us happy or unhappy is the very thing we seek to have, and we yearn for to be happy and feel alright. Aside that thing, life, the understanding of life, and how life should be lived is different all together.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sometimes it didn't seem possible that I could be so unhappy, considering how much I had compared to other kids my age, and, believe me, I understood how extremely lucky I was. Sometimes things didn't add up.

Sharon Leach

If you realize that other people put you down because of their own insecurities, unhappiness and jealousy, you understand that there's no need to be offended. Because it's not really about you, but about them.

Jeanette Coron

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

Jack Kerouac

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

Alain de Botton

…much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With a mental life that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappiness.

Sigmund Freud

Most of the time reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.

Sriveena Dhagavkar

Most of the times reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.

Sriveena Dhagavkar

Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.

Sriveena Dhagavkar

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

Sebastian Horsley

The whole world is festering with unhappy souls: The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles' Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch; and I don't like anybody very much!

Sheldon Harnick

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It seems to me that those who claim to be 'true' and 'bible believing' Christians and yet spend all their time and energy spreading unhappiness and hatred for others - and are themselves consumed by it - are by the very definition of the term - false prophets.

Christina Engela

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

You may not be happy with your life. All you have to do is to refuse to be unhappy! Because the worst thing is to get used to be unhappy!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

Alexander McCall Smith

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.

Paulo Coelho

The air in my home is heavy with my mom's unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And I hate it. I can be up in my room when she's in the kitchen below and I feel her despair seeping up through the floorboards. You can hear her banging pots and pans or cursing the vacuum cleaner

Laura Buzo

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Tom Robbins

They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.

Jennifer Donnelly

After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to bear. Each time she opened her eyes, she'd quickly shut them. And wish that she had woken up for the very last time.

Lisi Harrison

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Unhappiness is the resultant of what you desire and happiness of what you don't.

Amit Abraham

Your heart is who you are. It’s the one and only thing throughout the whole world, which will never lie to you. From the very first moment you start to be honest with it, and you start to act on your dreams in life, your heart will stop making you unhappy.

Jellis Vaes

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

To sacrifice one's unhappiness for a good cause is something I fervently believe in.

Marty Rubin

Happiness requires the ultimate sacrifice: to give up one's unhappiness.

Marty Rubin

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

Osamu Dazai

Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness.

Leonard Gardner

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy,maybe you can grasp it.

Dick Allen

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