Quotes About Unhappiness

At the front door, I took thirty seconds to compose myself. I need to learn how to whistle. My roommate at the center had taught me that trick. Parents never suspected their children were unhappy/delusional/high when the kid was whistling. Their minds just couldn't reconcile it. As I slipped inside, I puckered my lips, blowing soundless air. Whistling sucked.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart. That must be a matter of opinion, said the Tin Woodman. For my part, I will bear all the unhappiness without a murmur, if you will give me the heart.

How about my heart? asked the Tin Woodman. Why, as for that, answered Oz, I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart." That must be a matter of opinion, said the Tin Woodman. For my part, I will bear all the unhappiness without a murmur, if you will give me the heart.

Ora, acho um engano você querer um coração. Ele só traz infelicidade para a maioria das pessoas. Se você soubesse como tem sorte por não possuir um coração... — Deve ser questão de opinião — disse o Lenhador de Lata. — Por mim, eu aceitaria suportar toda essa infelicidade sem dar um pio, se você me desse um coração.

Be contented with your fate, for discontent leads to unhappiness, and unhappiness, in any form, is the greatest evil that can befall you.

Unhappiness and misfortune attend those who are voluntarily feeble. "Their defect deprived them of the joy derived from happy efforts. They will be the prey of duplicity and untruth. "They are the vanquished in life, and scarcely deserve the pity of the conqueror; for their defeat lacks grandeur, since it has never been aurioled by the majestic strength of conflict.

High stations tumult, but not bliss create; None think the Great unhappy, but the Great.

My conscience was pricked by the happiness of being loved. Or perhaps I was craving some still more decisive unhappiness.

Unhappiness is only a change. Happiness itself is only change. So what does it matter? The great thing is to see life--to understand--to feel--to work--to fight--to endure.

Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

I suppose you don't stand much if a chance if you think that happiness us the absence of unhappiness,' he said. 'Good luck ever being happy, then.

You will never can find happiness if you're the reason for someone's unhappiness.

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

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

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.

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.

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

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than with others. Meanwhile he blamed his own idleness for it, he ended by being ashamed of it.

Svi grešnici bili bi nesretni na nebu.

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

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.