Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. Votes: 6
Edward de BonoMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Votes: 6
Fyodor DostoevskyIt takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. Votes: 4
George SantayanaThe primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Votes: 4
Eckhart TolleThere are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. Votes: 4
Dorothea BrandeUnhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. Votes: 3
Paul BourgetUnhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. Votes: 3
Nick HornbyTo be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. Votes: 2
Maurice MaeterlinckHe felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. Votes: 2
Graham GreeneToo much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. Votes: 0
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandAll artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. Votes: 0
Lawrence DurrellSocial comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media. Votes: 0
Michelle GielanThere are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian. Votes: 0
Romano ProdiHad any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child? Votes: 0
Rafael YglesiasGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end. Votes: 0
Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonDon't blame yourself for other people's choices, including their choice of unhappiness. Votes: 0
Doreen VirtueThe aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyThe supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyAs soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleWhen one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAll human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaThe brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanI realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness. Votes: 0
Marcus BrigstockeKeeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love. Votes: 0
Laura EsquivelEmotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleMost unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves. Votes: 0
William JamesMoney does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness. Votes: 0
Robert KiyosakiI write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness. Votes: 0
Mario Vargas LlosaThe thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable. Votes: 0
Naoki HigashidaIt's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness. Votes: 0
Tom PerrottaThere is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness. Votes: 0
Jonathan Franzenthe central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness. Votes: 0
Susan FaludiThe happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldSixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. Votes: 0
James Thurbera short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes! Votes: 0
Margaret DelandWhat joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? Votes: 0
Logan Pearsall SmithA man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldYour unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it's telling you something isn't right. Votes: 0
Robert GreeneFailing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusSilence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalI regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution. Votes: 0
Elizabeth IYou know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth Votes: 0
Carole GlickfeldBut you have to rememberthat you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you. Votes: 0
Karen WheelerThe faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldYou know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth Votes: 0
Carole L. GlickfeldThe cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say. Votes: 0
AviTolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us? Votes: 0
John GeddesThe choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today. Votes: 0
Harold KlempThere are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness. Votes: 0
P. D. JamesIf I ever move in with a woman, she'll have to be really comfortable with unhappiness. Votes: 0
Dov DavidoffIn an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawIn all my unhappiness I was moving, and suddenly, this moving became an expression, a speaking out Votes: 0
Mary WigmanHumor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyMoney isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style. Votes: 0
Shannon L. AlderSo much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay. Votes: 0
Graham GreeneThis is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldMy purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness Votes: 0
Andrei TarkovskyThere is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much. Votes: 0
Joseph P. FarrellThe cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now. Votes: 0
Gordon B. HinckleyI believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. Votes: 0
William John LockeOnly after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth. Votes: 0
Judith WrightYou can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. Votes: 0
Philip KaufmanThe sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalThe chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now Votes: 0
Zig ZiglarSo long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. Votes: 3 D. H. Lawrence
I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life. Votes: 1 Kerry Condon