Unhappiness Quotes
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"The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think."
"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."
"Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it."
"The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them."
"(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours."
"If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each one is creating his own heaven by creating hell for others."
"To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy."
"He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,And isn’t cured from the outside,Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,Or a trunk not having iron bands!There being injustice is like there being death."
"But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable."
"I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many."
"You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth"
"Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mnogo iskustva."
"I want to hurt, so I can heal.I'm not unhappy.I'm just busy.I'm interested.And that's okay."
"And what’s your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. “Loving someone who loves me."
"Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?"
"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."
"For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person."
"Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person."
"Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days."
"What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. (118-119)"
"Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness."
"She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy she had developed for communication with a dead husband was not necessary, she cast about for some new unhappiness."
"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
"It's a hard life if you don't weaken."
"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."
"When you fail to tap into your wellsprings of inner strength due totoxic habits, environments or people, you wind up feeling trapped, stranded and unhappy. You end up in soulless jobs, destructive relationships and empty friendships. Most of all, youfind yourself unsatisfied with who you are, and you often become your own worst enemy,perpetuating the cycles of pain, anger and fear within you – like I did"
Aletheia Luna, Quiet Strength: Embracing, Empowering and Honoring Yourself as an Introvert
"I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose."
"Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do."
"We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed."
"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy."
"Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are."
"But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design."
"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."
"Unhappiness is complicated and has many different causes, but happiness is simple and has only one reason."
"...-the two look at each other - one full of guilt - other full of pain - both full of unhappiness."
"After or before any happiness, someone must cry."
"During, he looked away from all the strain, all the scratchiness, all the fights that never got going, he closed his eyes and waited until her smile came back. He allowed himself to believe in that smile, that brilliant counterfeit of joy"
"The key to happiness is a regular dose of unhappiness."
"A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair."
"I honestly think that depression, unhappiness or the feeling of emptiness is more a lack of amazement about life than anything else."
"The more money you spend on guns, the less money you spend on people! More weapons, less happiness; more guns, more misery!"
"Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste"
"When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others’ own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent."
"The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness"
"All of us are in the manufacturing industry - manufacturing either our own happiness or unhappiness."
"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."
"Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now."
"Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be."
"NEVER EVER STAY IN AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN. That is the worst thing one can ever do. It is better for a child to live with one Good Parent than two frustrated,screwed up ones."
"I believe in giving as honest an answer as I can. Because perhaps if people spent more time being honest with each other, especially with children, there would be less unhappiness in the world."
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