Best 285 quotes in «unhappiness quotes» category

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

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.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

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

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

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

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.

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

The wretched reflect either too much or too little.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

What is happiness and unhappiness?  It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person.  I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

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.

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

We become moral when we are unhappy.

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

After or before any happiness, someone must cry.

A gente acha que é menos infeliz quando não é infeliz sozinho; mas, segundo Zoroastro, não é por maldade, é por necessidade. A alegria de um homem feliz seria um insulto, mas dois infelizes são como dois arbustos frágeis que, apoiando-se um no outro, se fortalecem contra a tempestade.

All chances of happiness are gone from me. Just being with myself is hell all the time anyway.

All of us are in the manufacturing industry - manufacturing either our own happiness or unhappiness.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again.

And what’s your unhappiness due to, Harry? The words came out before he had time to think. “Loving someone who loves me.

And when people are unhappy, they can never bring joy to anyone else. They become nothing but tenants in their own lives, with no possibility of moving anywhere bigger or more luxurious. They resign themselves to their three-rooms-and-a-kitchen under the eaves, and then escape into the pages of luxury magazines offering sensational apartments with incredible services that they will never be able to buy. They torment themselves by imagining the life they do not have.

An untamed mind is usually doing its level best to attain or to retain unhappiness.

An untrained mind usually focuses not on what one needs and has but on what one wants but lacks.