Best 285 quotes in «unhappiness quotes» category

Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

If I didn't have the reverb I'd be an unhappy camper. So I want reverb in my monitor mix. Reverb and a good level in my monitor and I'm all set.

If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

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.

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

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!

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.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The wretched reflect either too much or too little.

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

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

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

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.