Quotes about Unhappiness

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. Votes: 8

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. Votes: 7

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. Votes: 6

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. Votes: 6

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. Votes: 6

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Votes: 6

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. Votes: 6

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. Votes: 6

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. Votes: 4

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy. Votes: 4

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. Votes: 4

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. Votes: 4

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Votes: 4

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. Votes: 4

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. Votes: 4

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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 it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. Votes: 4

Unhappiness was my god. Votes: 3

Unhappiness does make people look stupid. Votes: 3

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. Votes: 3

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. Votes: 3

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows. Votes: 3

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all. Votes: 3

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures. Votes: 3

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly. Votes: 3

Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories. Votes: 3

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears? Votes: 3

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with. Votes: 3

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help. Votes: 3

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. Votes: 3

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier. Votes: 3

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. Votes: 3

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it. Votes: 3

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence. Votes: 3

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. Votes: 3

Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. Votes: 3

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention. Votes: 3

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are. Votes: 3

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears. Votes: 3

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now. Votes: 3

The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around. Votes: 3

Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be Votes: 3

Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing. Votes: 3

Unhappiness where's when I was young, And we didn't give a damn, 'Cause we were raised, To see life as fun and take it if we can. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it? Votes: 3

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in. Votes: 3

A good cry can be wonderful sometimes, and sadness is nothing more than love announced. Sadness and Unhappiness are not the same thing, and it is good to remember that. And there is this: sadness cleanses the heart. Votes: 3

Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating. Votes: 3

Why do you need to fly so much?” she asked. “If I don’t, it’ll catch up with me.” The words just came out. “What will?” I took my hands from my face, panting. I stared out at the storm. “Unhappiness. Votes: 3

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. Votes: 2

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. Votes: 2

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy. Votes: 2

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. Votes: 2

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. Votes: 2

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. Votes: 2

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness. Votes: 2

Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families. Votes: 2

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter. Votes: 2

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate. Votes: 2

A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Votes: 2

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I don't think unhappiness is fated. Votes: 0

My unhappiness protects me from life. Votes: 0

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. Votes: 0

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. Votes: 0

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception Votes: 0

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. Votes: 0

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. Votes: 0

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. Votes: 0

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. Votes: 0

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality. Votes: 0

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness. Votes: 0

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time. Votes: 0

When you compromise your life, you compromise unhappiness. Votes: 0

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate. Votes: 0

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness. Votes: 0

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Votes: 0

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation. Votes: 0

Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness. Votes: 0

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid Votes: 0

The only unhappiness is not to love God. Votes: 0

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. Votes: 0

The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside. Votes: 0

We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness. Votes: 0

Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular. Votes: 0

Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness. Votes: 0

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness. Votes: 0

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering Votes: 0

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness. Votes: 0

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness. Votes: 0

But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it! Votes: 0

Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness. Votes: 0

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness? Votes: 0

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness. Votes: 0

Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness. Votes: 0

Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness Votes: 0

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim. Votes: 0

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness. Votes: 0

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful Votes: 0

Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it. Votes: 0

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. Votes: 0

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature. Votes: 0

The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness Votes: 0

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows. Votes: 0

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation. Votes: 0

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. Votes: 0

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success. Votes: 0

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. Votes: 0

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design. Votes: 0

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. Votes: 0

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. Votes: 0

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature. Votes: 0

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness? Votes: 0

If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations. Votes: 0

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost. Votes: 0

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness. Votes: 0

Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media. Votes: 0

There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian. Votes: 0

Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child? Votes: 0

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness. Votes: 0

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end. Votes: 0

You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe. Votes: 0

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness. Votes: 0

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Votes: 0

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. Votes: 0

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others. Votes: 0

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says. Votes: 0

Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness. Votes: 0

Don't blame yourself for other people's choices, including their choice of unhappiness. Votes: 0

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness. Votes: 0

I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so. Votes: 0

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily. Votes: 0

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. Votes: 0

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve. Votes: 0

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. Votes: 0

When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness. Votes: 0

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith. Votes: 0

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness. Votes: 0

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. Votes: 0

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry. Votes: 0

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. Votes: 0

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else. Votes: 0

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. Votes: 0

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness. Votes: 0

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness. Votes: 0

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy. Votes: 0

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it. Votes: 0

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness. Votes: 0

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love. Votes: 0

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness Votes: 0

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves. Votes: 0

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept. Votes: 0

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness. Votes: 0

Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness. Votes: 0

I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness. Votes: 0

Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness Votes: 0

The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable. Votes: 0

It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness. Votes: 0

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness. Votes: 0

the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness. Votes: 0

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. Votes: 0

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. Votes: 0

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes! Votes: 0

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? Votes: 0

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. Votes: 0

Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it's telling you something isn't right. Votes: 0

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness. Votes: 0

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room. Votes: 0

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution. Votes: 0

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth Votes: 0

People "” running from unhappiness, hiding in power "” are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs. Votes: 0

People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs. Votes: 0

Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy. Votes: 0

But you have to rememberthat you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you. Votes: 0

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. Votes: 0

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth Votes: 0

The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say. Votes: 0

Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us? Votes: 0

The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today. Votes: 0

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness. Votes: 0

If I ever move in with a woman, she'll have to be really comfortable with unhappiness. Votes: 0

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. Votes: 0

In all my unhappiness I was moving, and suddenly, this moving became an expression, a speaking out Votes: 0

Just a smile from the right person can delete fear, cancel unhappiness, and even dissolve physical pain. Votes: 0

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. Votes: 0

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. Votes: 0

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. Votes: 0

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. Votes: 0

I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse. Votes: 0

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness. Votes: 0

Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style. Votes: 0

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth. Votes: 0

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. Votes: 0

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed. Votes: 0

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness. Votes: 0

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. Votes: 0

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind. Votes: 0

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school. Votes: 0

Most of the time reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations. Votes: 0

Most of the times reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations. Votes: 0

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay. Votes: 0

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. Votes: 0

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness Votes: 0

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much. Votes: 0

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now. Votes: 0

Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness. Votes: 0

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Votes: 0

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession. Votes: 0

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. Votes: 0

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are. Votes: 0

Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations. Votes: 0

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. Votes: 0

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. Votes: 0

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. Votes: 0

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. Votes: 0

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. Votes: 0

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness. Votes: 0

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness. Votes: 0

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. Votes: 0

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth. Votes: 0

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. Votes: 0

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you Votes: 0

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. Votes: 0

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now Votes: 0

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. Votes: 0

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. Votes: 0

Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness. Votes: 0

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness. Votes: 0

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. Votes: 0

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men. Votes: 0

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults? Votes: 0

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself. Votes: 0

Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude. Votes: 0

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit. Votes: 0

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness. Votes: 0

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic. Votes: 0

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness. Votes: 0

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness. Votes: 0

A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master. Votes: 0

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water. Votes: 0

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. Votes: 0

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is. Votes: 0

Short term goals are often based on dissatisfaction, and actions based on dissatisfaction will eventually lead to a life of unhappiness. Votes: 0

we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness. Votes: 0

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy~? Votes: 0

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. Votes: 0

One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control. Votes: 0

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. Votes: 0

If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes. Votes: 0

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy. Votes: 0

What we do to others will come back to us. You can't expect to be happy by causing unhappiness to others. Votes: 0

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work. Votes: 0

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat. Votes: 0

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. Votes: 0

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both. Votes: 0

Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception. Votes: 0

Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception. Votes: 0

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. Votes: 0

Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world. Votes: 0

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. Votes: 0

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition. Votes: 0

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish. Votes: 0

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel. Votes: 0

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person. Votes: 0

I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that. Votes: 0

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. Votes: 0

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Votes: 0

A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment. Votes: 0

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness? Votes: 0

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands. Votes: 0

If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice! Votes: 0

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence. Votes: 0

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband. Votes: 0

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? Votes: 0

Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy. Votes: 0

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness Votes: 0

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends. Votes: 0

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well. Votes: 0

Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines. Votes: 0

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy. Votes: 0

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later. Votes: 0

Some people are so evil when they enter a house; happiness escapes through the window and unhappiness and fear installed in its place Votes: 0

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind. Votes: 0

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated... Votes: 0

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible. Votes: 0

A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness. Votes: 0

Craving and desire are the cause of all unhappiness. Everything sooner or later must change, so do not become attached to anything. Instead devote... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic Votes: 0

Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy. Votes: 0

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was. Votes: 0

How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life. Votes: 0

And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it. Votes: 0

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession Votes: 0

Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude. Votes: 0

Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Votes: 0

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you'll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets. Votes: 0

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now. Votes: 0

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down. Votes: 0

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable. Votes: 0

If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness. Votes: 0

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness. Votes: 0

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. Votes: 0

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility. Votes: 0

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness. Votes: 0

A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides. Votes: 0

Invest in your work life balance. Time with friends and family is as important as times at work. Getting that out of balance is a path toward unhappiness. Votes: 0

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life "” and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters. Votes: 0

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free. Votes: 0

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal. Votes: 0

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it. Votes: 0

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that. Votes: 0

What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt. Votes: 0

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized. Votes: 0

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life Votes: 0

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire. Votes: 0

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way. Votes: 0

Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness? Votes: 0

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow. Votes: 0

Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength. Votes: 0

God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends. Votes: 0

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present. Votes: 0

Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose? Votes: 0

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When we use power to cause someone else not to succeed so that we can succeed, it slows our vibratory frequency. It slows us down. When we slow down we experience unhappiness. Votes: 0

Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair? Votes: 0

It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace. Votes: 0

There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated. Votes: 0

As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living. Votes: 0

I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois. Votes: 0

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was. Votes: 0

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward. Votes: 0

It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is. Votes: 0

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness. Votes: 0

I believe in giving as honest an answer as I can. Because perhaps if people spent more time being honest with each other, especially with children, there would be less unhappiness in the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible. Votes: 0

An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is. Votes: 0

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism. Votes: 0

Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease. Votes: 0

If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money. Votes: 0