Unhappiness Quotes
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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.
The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.
Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.
Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.
Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.
To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.
Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.
Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness.
When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.
Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.
Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.
A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.
I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.
For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.
I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.
Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc in our adult lives.
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.
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.
Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.
Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.
I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.
Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.
If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!
I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.
Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.
That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular.
