Quotes About Unhappiness

Omul fericit este mai în m?sur? s? simt? compasiune pentru alÈ›ii.Cel fericit simte cu mai mult? intensitate nefericirea decât cel fericit.Chiar dac? ajunge uÈ™or la contrarul ei.?i mulÈ›i dintre cei care fac haz de nefericirea lor se complac, în fond, în ea.

Nu toÈ›i oamenii au curajul s? fie fericiÈ›i.Dac? d? fericirea peste ei, o repudiaz?.Fiindc? vor s? fie nefericiÈ›i, chiar dac? în fond nu sunt; pentru c? ei nefericirea reprezint? adev?rata fericire.

Psychology narrows the cause for personal unhappiness down to the person himself, and then he is stuck with himself. But we know that the universal and general cause for personal badness, guilt, and inferiority is the natural world and the person's relationship to it as a symbolic animal who must find a secure place in it.

The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end.

The mother instinct is something of which I am completely devoid. I explain it like this to myself: life is a vale of tears and all human beings are miserable creatures, so I cannot take the responsibility for bringing yet another unhappy creature into the world.

I wanted my unhappiness to be a result of defying convention—like a Hardy novel where I'd exceeded my society's allowance for freethinking and was now being punished.

Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

I must find myself a life, a new life, even if all of life consists only of an endless search for life. What is respect compared to this other thing: being happy and having satisfied the heart's pride. Even being unhappy is better than being respected. I am unhappy despite the respect I enjoy; and so in my own eyes I don't deserve this respect; for I consider only happiness worthy of respect. Therefore I must try whether it is possible to be happy without insisting on respect.

Unhappiness of the kind that is recognized and examined and brooded over is a spiritual luxury.

By God, if you go killing Unhappiness who'll be left in the houses?

All happy endings are the same, but every unhappy ending is unhappy in its own way.

Haunted by the unhappiness that appeared like an ugly creature to live in their home

He kept looking for new experiences, and though he was very successful at everything he attempted, it did not bring him happiness. Remember this, success alone does not bring happiness. Nor does failure have to bring unhappiness.

I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop my desires and sorrows from being violent ones); what impels me, secretly and obstinately, is not tactical: I accept and I affirm, irrespective of the true and the false, of success and failure; I am withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance...

I waver—in the dark—between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I'm unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together—and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman's death.

All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'?" "Anna Karenina.

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.