Unhappiness Quotes - Page 19

• Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

  Lucille Ball

  Children, Parent, Contentment

  Lucille Ball (1997). “Love, Lucy”, p.196, Penguin

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• If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.

  Robert Breault

  Morning, Clothes, Watches

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• The wretched reflect either too much or too little.

  Publilius Syrus

  Littles, Too Much, Wretched

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• Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pain, Men, Unhappy

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

  George Santayana

  Men, Easy, Wretchedness

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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• Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

  Euripides

  Two, Wretched

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.47, University of Chicago Press

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• Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Order, People

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• The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud.

  Lucy Larcom

  Real, Clouds, Feelings

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Boredom, People

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

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• When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.

  John Keats

  Morning, Flower, Fall

  'Ode on Melancholy' (1820) st. 2

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

  Iris Murdoch

  Sadness, Piercings, Midst

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “A Word Child”, p.3, Random House

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• The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

  Larry McMurtry

  Sadness, People, Sorrow

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Artist, Littles, Today

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.86, Faber & Faber

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• Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

  Le Corbusier

  Eye, Style, Modernity

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Men, Unhappy, Knows

  "The last word on Depression" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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• What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Determine, Persons, Impotence

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• So what is happiness? I am sure this question will be asked through the ages. And I doubt there is one answer for all people. Like heaven and hell, one person's happiness can be another person's unhappiness, which is why I'm not attempting to tell you what to do to find your happiness. I have enough trouble finding and hanging onto my own true happiness.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Happiness, People, Heaven

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• The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Nature, Ignorance, People

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• So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

  Lin Yutang

  Work, People, Unhappy

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• I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, People, Track

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• Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

  Hans Selye

  Suicide, Stress, Heart

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• In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Block, Home

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• Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

  Alastair Campbell

  Happiness, Thinking, Down And

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• I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

  Monica Ali

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Ali's in wonderland" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2003.

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• When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

  Barry Hannah

  Thinking, Agony, People

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