Unhappiness Quotes - page 3

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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. View quote
Sean Covey
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty. View quote
Gordon W. Allport
Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody. View quote
Osamu Dazai
Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes. View quote
Osamu Dazai
You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things. View quote
James Hillman
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived-bound, in other words, for life. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line? View quote
Amy Chua
She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it. View quote
Georgette Heyer
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. View quote
Alfred Doblin
The thing about happiness is that it doesnt help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me. (Lana Turner)
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness. View quote
Yasmina Khadra
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier. View quote
Sam Levenson
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. View quote
Daisaku Ikeda
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness. View quote
Charlotte Sophia Kasl
I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that. View quote
Lynn Johnston
You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. View quote
Philip Kaufman
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. View quote
Polly Toynbee
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly. View quote
Polly Toynbee
I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. View quote
Patti Page
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness. (Umberto Eco)
So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work. View quote
Graham Greene
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. View quote
Graham Greene
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. View quote
Graham Greene
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death. View quote
Graham Greene