Unhappiness Quotes - Page 3

• If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

  Epictetus

  Happy Birthday, Loss, Anxiety

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• So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Long, Matter, Miserable

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.743, Delphi Classics

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• The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Morning, Rose, Jubilee

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.625, Delphi Classics

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• You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

  Philip Kaufman

  Guarantees, Reverse

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

  Lin Yutang

  People, Unhappy, World

  Yutang Lin (1950). “On the Wisdom of America”

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• Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.

  Empress Dowager Cixi

  Suffering, Unhappy, Lifetime

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• There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

  Woody Allen

  Loneliness, Boys, Elderly

  Annie Hall, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Unhappy, Should

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• Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility.

  Tom Hoover

  Success, Failure, Reality

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• What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Men, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thinking, Shadow, Half

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 169), 1997.

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• Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

  Sam Levenson

  Being Happy, Cynical, Trying

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inability, Rooms, Mankind

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• Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Unhappy, Different, Sweden

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• She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.

  Georgette Heyer

  Heart, Hands, Looks

  Georgette Heyer (1939). “Royal Escape”

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• Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

  Dennis Prager

  Gratitude, Grateful, Suffering

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Unhappy, Becoming, Sometimes

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• The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

  Franz Schubert

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

  David Hume

  Believe, Men, Unhappy

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• If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

  Democritus

  Suffering, Injustice, True Wealth

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• Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

  Anatole France

  Stupid, People, Doe

  Anatole France (2015). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard: Works by France”, p.154, 谷月社

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• Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Suffering, Degrees

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.754, Delphi Classics

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• Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Believe, Sleep, Men

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• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

  William James

  Happiness, Attitude, Mean

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

  James Boswell

  Melancholy, Silent

  James Boswell, Mark Harris (1981). “The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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