Unhappy Quotes - Page 6

• On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

  Michael Tolkin

  Daughter, Monday, Car

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• My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Knowing, Ignorant, Suffering

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Wealth, Persons

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• Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Player, Games

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• If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Unhappy Person, Trying

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• Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Life, Men, Treasure

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Giacomo Casanova (Preface, p. 10 in 2001 translation of Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli), 1822.

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• Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Evil, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.342

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• We're going to have plenty of work to do, but it's going to be a lot easier than here. There'll be no sorrow, no sickness, no pain, no weariness, no death, no more tears, no more crying. That's certainly going to make things easier. We're going to have rest in Heaven compared to what we've had in this life, but we're also going to have something to do. We'd eventually be unhappy if we didn't!

  David Berg

  Pain, Heaven, Sorrow

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• It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.

  David Berg

  Thinking, Years, Cities

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• The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Night, Practice

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• You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Forever, Suffering

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• Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mind, Kind

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• Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Soul

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3536, Delphi Classics

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• A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Thinking, Two, Four

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• There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.

  Tony Robbins

  Groups, Reorganization, Care

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• When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Life Is, Unhappiness

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• In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Mind, Way

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• An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Marriage, Heart, Hands

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.150

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• Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

  Alexander Pope

  Sports, Men, Unjust

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.27

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• I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Vegetables, Upset

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 266, 2006.

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• Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Spirit, Unhappiness, Lucifer

  'Doctor Faustus' (1604) act 1, sc. 3

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• God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

  Joseph Joubert

  Unhappiness, Consolation, Console

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

  Wendell Berry

  Freedom, Thinking, Migrant Workers

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• If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

  Brian Tracy

  Unhappiness, Ifs

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• I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

  Paul Schrader

  Want, Unhappiness, I Want To Be Happy

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