Unhappiness Quotes

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

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

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

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

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.