Unhappiness Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  People, Misery, Miserable

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• It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

  Samuel Johnson

  Authority, Controversy, Propositions

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.115

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• Brian Eno records and music got me through. It made me feel like there were other people out there who had the same questions and fears and unhappiness. Particularly those kinds of artists who were writing songs about exactly those things.

  Greg Mottola

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

  Anton Chekhov

  Children, Expression, Silence

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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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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• It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Awkward, Needs

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

  Austin O'Malley

  Happiness, Water, Gold

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• If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.

  Tony Robbins

  Two, Majority, Looks

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• It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

  Francis Quarles

  Happiness, Long, Enough

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.49

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• 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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• 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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• By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual

  Jeremy Bentham

  Pain, Party, Evil

  Jeremy Bentham (1879). “The Principles of Morals and Legislation”

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• What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.

  Samuel Richardson

  Evil, Looks, May

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• This is precisely the purpose of censorship - not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.

  Hedrick Smith

  Block, Views, Knowing

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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

  Unhappy, Firsts, Currents

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• The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness is as legitimate a part of experience as happiness and necessary in order to render happiness appreciable, or that it is more advantageous to be young than to be old: those still took me a long time to pry loose for reexamination.

  Jean Liedloff

  Order, Views, Long

  Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Men, Discipline

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.344, Modern Library

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• I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

  Carl Hilty

  Happiness, Believe, Bitter

  Carl Hilty (2013). “Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

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• It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Sin, Confession

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 46: Sermons 2603-2655”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

  Adrian Rogers

  Mirrors, Window

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• What is happiness and unhappiness?  It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person.  I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grateful, Littles, What Is Happiness

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• It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

  Janis Joplin

  Wish

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