Unhappiness Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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

  Problem, Truth Is, Shows

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• The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Suffering

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• Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you?

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Add

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• The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

  Stendhal

  Boredom

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• Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.

  Barbara Hutton

  Money, Husband, Fascination

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• real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Real, Long, Suffering

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). “Glenarvon (1816).”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Selfish, Discipline, Generosity

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• Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Religious, Profound, Paradise

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness-hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

  Terri E Apter

  Daughter, Mother, Good Relationship

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• The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Vices, Deceit

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• There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.

  Tony Robbins

  Unhappy, Groups, Reorganization

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• Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

  Aldous Huxley

  Malice, Folly, Consequence

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• When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Unhappy, Life Is

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• Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Moments, States, Unconscious

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.44, New World Library

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• ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Italian, Play

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.240, 谷月社

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• Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Unhappy, Spirit, Lucifer

  'Doctor Faustus' (1604) act 1, sc. 3

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• Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

  Claude Monet

  Success, Age, Realizing

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

  Joseph Joubert

  Unhappy, Consolation, Console

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

  Eleanora Duse

  Teacher, Growth, Sorrow

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• I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

  Paul Schrader

  Unhappy, Want, I Want To Be Happy

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• Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

  Alain de Botton

  Happiness, Play, Perspective

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• The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Waiting, Doe, Fairy Tale

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• Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Behavior, Virtuous

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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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