Unhappiness Quotes

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. (Eric Hoffer)
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. View quote
Edward de Bono
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. View quote
George Santayana
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. View quote
James Thurber
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. View quote
Georges Simenon
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is too condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness. (Émile Durkheim)
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy. View quote
Joan Rivers
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. View quote
Joseph Roux
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. View quote
Samuel Beckett
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. View quote
Dorothea Brande
To believe that is we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. View quote
Franz Schubert
Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish. View quote
Tom Perrotta
It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness. View quote
Tom Perrotta
Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories. (Jed Rubenfeld)
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? View quote
Leslie Caron
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belong to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity. View quote
Graham Greene
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. View quote
Georges Simenon
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius