Unhappiness Quotes

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.

She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

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

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

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.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

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

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

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

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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?

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

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

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

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

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.

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.

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