Unhappiness Quotes - Page 2

• We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, True Friend, Father

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

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• 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.

  Dennis Prager

  People, Evil, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from May 02, 2012

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• 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?

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

  Donald Knuth

  Unhappy, Ifs

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• No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Inspiration

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.97, Da Capo Press

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

  Don Herold

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Memories, Waiting, Racing

  Simone De Beauvoir (2013). “The Woman Destroyed”, p.49, Pantheon

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• Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspiration, Positivity, Thinking

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• Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

  Lester Levenson

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sadness

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• [Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

  Eckhart Tolle

  Relationship, Pain, Causes

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.89, New World Library

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• It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

  George Santayana

  Marriage, Patience, Appreciate

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 2, ch. 2

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• If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Pain, Unhappy

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• If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

  Epictetus

  Men, Unhappy, Faults

  Epictetus (1900). “Discourses ...”

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• If I didn't have the reverb I'd be an unhappy camper. So I want reverb in my monitor mix. Reverb and a good level in my monitor and I'm all set.

  Paul Taylor

  Unhappy, Levels, Want

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

  Willie Nelson

  Suffering, Purpose, Causes

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Feb 13, 2014

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• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

  William James

  Attitude, Mean, Ugly

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.88, Booklassic

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Emotional, Bitterness, Oneself

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.173, Routledge

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• Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Maturity, Skills, Long

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• Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Happiness, Stories, Antithesis

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.12, Penguin

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• Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Beautiful, Dwelling Place, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.213, New World Library

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• There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Heartbreak, Kind, Ifs

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.447, Macmillan

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• A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Night, Painful Experiences

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• The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

  Carl Jung

  World, Today, Causes

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Relief, Maps, Faces

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.306, New Directions Publishing

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Men, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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