Unhappiness Quotes

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how mis...

What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?That, by the way, is...

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretc...

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were un...

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than i...

Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mn...

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

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and m...

There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own...

He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. ...

Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happ...

For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettin...

...-the two look at each other - one full of guilt - other full of pain - both full of unhappiness.

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane peopl...

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting ...

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said abo...

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion t...

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursu...

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories,...

...He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl...

I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never disco...

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggerati...

I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combinati...

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his r...

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing i...

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus t...

I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unh...

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it...

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a consta...

During, he looked away from all the strain, all the scratchiness, all the fights that never got goin...

…much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. W...

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them thei...

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of...

Schizophrenia is just a catch-all term for forms of mental behaviour that we don’t understand. In th...

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhap...

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhapp...

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, w...

In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their miser...

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want good...

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more th...

It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housek...

Anna Petrovna: I am beginning to think, doctor, that fate has cheated me. The majority of people, wh...

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you poss...

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure.

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

I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and ba...