Unhappiness Quotes - Page 26

• The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Nature, Ignorance, Animal

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• Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
  Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

  Ovid

  Patience, One Day, Endure

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• What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Sweet, Taken, Years

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• I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, Achieve, Easier

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

  S. N. Goenka

  Real, Journey, Mind

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• The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

  Andre Maurois

  Life, Happiness, Men

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

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• Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

  Norman O. Brown

  Ideas, Progress, Unhappy

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

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• Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction the we alone suffer to the point of unbearable intensity. Unhappiness is always to feel oneself imprisoned in one's own skin, in one's own brain.

  Jacques Lusseyran

  Thinking, Brain, Suffering

  Jacques Lusseyran (2016). “Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness”, p.143, New World Library

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• My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like hers, a life of promiscuity, rootlessness, and substance abuse, resentment and fear tend to replace all reasonable and proper emotions, and the world becomes your enemy.

  J. Robert Lennon

  Fear, Taken, Enemy

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• To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Inability, Able

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.174, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.

  Jane Siberry

  Land, Creating, People

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• And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.

  Don Altman

  Hurt, Self, Goal

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• Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Father, Upset Stomach, Joy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.195, Penguin

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• The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.

  Jessica Valenti

  Motherhood, Giving, Parent

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Adults, Natural

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

  Agnes Repplier

  Attention, Way, Steps

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• On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spring, War, Passion

  "Pensées and Other Writings".

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• Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Band

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• Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Elements, Function

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Men, Facts

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.

  James E. Faust

  Men, Years, Listening

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• The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.

  Philip Roth

  Men, Tragedy, He Man

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.

  Michelle Gielan

  Media, Social, Comparison

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Invest in your work life balance. Time with friends and family is as important as times at work. Getting that out of balance is a path toward unhappiness.

  Stephen Gillett

  Balance, Important, Family And Friends

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• Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Often Is, Unhappy, Satisfaction

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