Unhappiness Quotes

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

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

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.

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

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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.

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.

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.