Unhappiness Quotes - Page 3

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

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.

I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

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.

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

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

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.