Unhappiness Quotes - Page 29

• If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Men, Intelligent

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• The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Unhappy, Ends

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moving, Ego, Mind

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Understanding, Alarms

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• You can pretend everything's fine, but if there's an unhappiness or you're not having sex or you're not communicating or you're made to feel third best in the house and you don't address it and you just try to put on a nice face and a smile, that kind of aggression and anger is going to come out in some sinister way.

  Eli Roth

  Sex, Nice, House

  "Eli Roth Talks 'Knock Knock,' Parallels between Gore and the Destruction of Art, and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. August 27, 2015.

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• The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Food, Science

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.278

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• He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

  Graham Greene

  Happiness, Loyalty, Literature

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

  Francis Bacon

  Passion, Artist, Feelings

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• We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Believe

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• I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lonely, Loneliness, Love Is

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

  Gordon Allport

  Loyalty, Punishment, Bitter

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• Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, Men, Tiles

  Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.99, Grove Press

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• Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Immortality, Evidence, Humans

  Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA

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• Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Ifs

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• There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suffering, May, Causes

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.177, Routledge

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• Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mistake, Waiting, Matter

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