Quotes About Unhappiness

the power of maya: that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness.

Dio mio possibile che non riuscisse a pensare ad altro? la mente era fissa lì, sempre sullo stesso argomento tormentoso, e all'altezza del palazzo di Brera lo prese lo sgomento perché in questo preciso istante ha capito di essere completamente infelice senza nessuna possiblità di rimedio, una cosa assurda e idiota, tuttavia così vera e intensa che non trovava più requie.

The human capacity for unhappiness is so enormous that the entire world cannot fill it.

Sorrow fiddles the ribs and no man should put his hand on anything; there is no direct way. The foetus of symmetry nourishes itself on cross purposes; this is its wonderful unhappiness...

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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

Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

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.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

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

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.

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

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

Every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way.

But you could, if you were wrong and if you had a crooked heart, forget this most obvious and endearing thing and instead speak of a time you were all alone, in the country, with no one wanting a thing from you, not even love. You could say that was your happiest time. And if you did this then telling about this happiest of times would cause the person you most want to be happy to be unhappy.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

T]oday some people continue to view themselves as victims because of the historical suffering of their group and because it is easy and comforting to do so. And this renders happiness virtually impossible. First…perceiving yourself as a victim makes you unhappy. Second, it makes you permanently angry, which further guarantees unhappiness. Third, it enables you to avoid confronting whatever it is that is really making you unhappy.

The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.

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.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic and compromising than the big fellows.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows.

Žinojimas išlaisvina žmog?, bet padaro j? nelaiming?.