Unhappiness Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mistake, Buddhism

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• Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mistake

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• Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Abuse, Welfare

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• This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Mother, Wife, Faithful

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• Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.

  Linda Howard

  Breakup, Thinking, People

  Linda Howard (2007). “Up Close and Dangerous: A Novel”, p.190, Ballantine Books

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• Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wish, Prejudice, Want

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• As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Airports, Littles, Misery

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• There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

  Coco Chanel

  People, Wells, Knows

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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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• The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Daughter, Children, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.1054, Delphi Classics

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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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• Unhappy people are dangerous.

  Rebecca West

  People, Unhappy, Dangerous

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.231, Open Road Media

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• Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Grief, Belief, Ends

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Accountants, Beggar

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• Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

  Denis Diderot

  Race, Hands, Soul

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