Unhappiness Quotes - Page 24

• 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 enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Pain, Enjoy

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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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• a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

  Margaret Deland

  Cutting, Taste, Jokes

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• the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Argument, Responsible, Sexism

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.

  Dorothea Brande

  Running, Years, Differences

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• When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Happiness, Spring, Anxiety

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• There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

  Storm Jameson

  Satisfaction, Misery, Victim

  Storm Jameson (1932). “That was yesterday”

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• Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

  Alice James

  People, Unhappy, Way

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• [On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Beautiful, Cities, Paris

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• We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have served a valuable function in helping to make a decision. But once the decision is made, let the picture go. Since you can't control the future, the picture can create unhappiness if it's not fulfilled. Disappointment may make you miss the good that can come out of every situation in which you find yourself.

  Susan Jeffers

  Disappointment, Eye, Expectations

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.135, Random House

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• When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Imbalance, Sides

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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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• Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

  Nella Larsen

  Kindness, Thinking, Religion

  Nella Larsen (2010). “The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories”, p.188, Anchor

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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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• 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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• 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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• One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.

  Jo Coudert

  Hunting, Punishment, Judging

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.197, iUniverse

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• Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

  Lucy Freeman

  Parent, Unhappy, Endless

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• But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it!

  Simone Berteaut

  Happiness

  Simone Berteaut (1972). “Piaf: a biography”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Doubt, Suffering

  "Studies on Hysteria". Book by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, as translated by Nicola Luckhurst (2004), 1895.

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Honesty, Successful

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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