Unhappiness Quotes

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

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.

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

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

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.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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.

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 a paradise in a few years.

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.

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.

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

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

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.

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.