Unhappiness quotes
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
-- Albert Camus -
Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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.
-- Alfred Doblin -
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.
-- Alice Munro -
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Unhappiness was my god.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.
-- Avi -
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
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I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.
-- Bernard Kouchner -
Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
-- Bertrand Russell -
If you're unhappy with the way you played, what's the point?
-- Bode Miller -
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If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?
-- Brian Tracy -
You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
-- Carole L. Glickfeld -
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
-- Chris Prentiss -
Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
-- Democritus -
If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful
-- Dennis Prager -
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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
-- Donald Knuth -
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
-- Dorothea Brande -
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.
-- Douglas Coupland -
If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.
-- Elizabeth I -
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The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.
-- Elizabeth McCracken -
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
-- Erica Jong -
Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.
-- Euripides -
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
-- Francoise Sagan -
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
-- Francoise Sagan -
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
-- George Santayana -
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Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
-- Iris Murdoch -
Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.
-- Ivan Panin -
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.
-- Jacques Maritain -
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
-- James Boswell -
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It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
-- Janis Joplin -
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-- Jason Mraz -
...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
-- Jean Rhys -
Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.
-- Jerry Stahl -
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Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.
-- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo -
The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.
-- Jim Rohn -
Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.
-- Joyce Meyer -
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
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To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.
-- Laura Marling -
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
-- Lauren Oliver -
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.
-- Le Corbusier -
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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid ...
-- Lucy Freeman -
The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.
-- Lulu -
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.
-- Lynn Johnston -
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There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.
-- Marcus Brigstocke -
a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!
-- Margaret Deland -
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Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.
-- Marie Antoinette -
Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.
-- Martin Luther -
I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over ...
-- Mary Lasswell -
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck -
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Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.
-- Michael Neill -
I don't think unhappiness is fated.
-- Michelle Moran -
The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.
-- Naoki Higashida -
Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.
-- Nick Hornby -
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Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness
-- Novala Takemoto -
My unhappiness protects me from life.
-- Orhan Pamuk -
Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.Everything passes.
-- Osamu Dazai -
I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.
-- Patti Page -
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Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.
-- Paul Bourget -
I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?
-- Paul Schrader -
You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
-- Philip Kaufman -
The wretched reflect either too much or too little.
-- Publilius Syrus -
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Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
-- Robert M. Lindner -
Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession
-- Robert S. Jepson, Jr. -
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
-- Samuel Beckett -
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.
-- Samuel Beckett -
We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.
-- Sharon Gannon -
Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.
-- Shirley Hazzard -
But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it!
-- Simone Berteaut -
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There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.
-- Storm Jameson -
The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell.
-- Stuart Rothenberg -
the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.
-- Susan Faludi -
All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.
-- Wei Wu Wei -
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
-- Yasmin Mogahed -
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.
-- Yasmina Khadra -
The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.
-- Dov Davidoff -
If I ever move in with a woman, she'll have to be really comfortable with unhappiness.
-- Dov Davidoff -
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Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.
-- Michelle Gielan -
In all my unhappiness I was moving, and suddenly, this moving became an expression, a speaking out
-- Mary Wigman -
There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.
-- Romano Prodi
