Quotes about Unhappiness

"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy."
-Brigitte Bardot

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
-Seneca

"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
-Baruch Spinoza

"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
-Democritus

"Basically, cooked information is working its way into high-level pronouncements and there's a lot of unhappiness about it in intelligence, especially among analysts at the CIA."
-Vincent Cannistraro

"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 paradise in a few years."
-Bertrand Russell

"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."
-Graham Greene

"The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others."
-B. C. Forbes

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves."
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"Our unhappiness and conflict came not as a result of an unreceptive environment, but from believing the culture's 'born-gay' message and resigning ourselves to an unhappy life dominated by unwanted same-sex attractions."
-Alan Chambers

"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I told her there was unease, discomfort, unhappiness over some of the coverage. There was concern that she'd been convinced in an unwarranted way, a way that was not holding up, of the possible existence of W.M.D."
-Roger Cohen

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
-Martha Washington

"We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it."
-Willie Nelson

"I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?"
-Philip Larkin

"Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness."
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
-Robertson Davies

"Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth."
-Judith Wright

"It's mostly for people with nontraditional living arrangements. There will be some benefits for some people but unhappiness for others. We have several clients that it's going to have an impact on, and it's not going to be favorable for them."
-Jim Shoemaker

"It has opened up a lot of unhappiness that has accumulated over time. I don't know yet how serious the consequences will be."
-David Frum

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live."
-Alexandre Dumas

"Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's 'yes', all's well. That is enough."
-Louis Ferdinand Celine

"Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always."
-Octavio Paz

"Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness."
-Dr. Hans Selye

"[This old auto part finally reached O'Rourke, who said:] If you've found someone who's unhappy with Happy Times , have them give me a call. We're all about being happy here. We don't want them having unhappy feelings about us. We would like to have them resolve their unhappiness. That's what Happy Times is all about. ... You've gotta be kidding me."
-Carl Davis

"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."
-Joseph Roux

"What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness."
-Robert Lindner

"There was a lot of unhappiness at the Labs. So Ken and Dennis, with Doug's prodding, decided they'd try to write a system that would make them happy."
-Peter Salus