Unhappiness Quotes

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

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?

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

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

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

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

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

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

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

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.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's 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.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

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.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.