Unhappiness Quotes

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

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.

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.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.