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Quotes About Unhappiness

you have to have unhappiness to know what happiness is.
~ Plum Sykes
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.
~ Polly Toynbee
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.
~ Primo Levi
They will come, Alexander this is going to take some time. Did you notice how unhappy Emma is? She's a perfect choice". "Oh, I don't know Antoinette; she is young and might just be confused". "No, I read her thoughts she is genuinely unhappy, miserable is a better description and she's recently been thinking about killing herself".
~ R. Stone
an unhappy person can never give happiness, so stay away from him.
~ R.P. Jain
I realised,' she said, 'that she was happy for the first time in her life, and I realised too that she would never have known this happiness had she not gone through the unhappiness that preceded it, in precisely the way that she did.
~ Rachel Cusk
realised too that she would never have known this happiness had she not gone through the unhappiness that preceded it, in precisely the way that she did.
~ Rachel Cusk
I realised too that she would never have known this happiness had she not gone through the unhappiness that preceded it, in precisely the way that she did.
~ Rachel Cusk
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
~ Slavoj Zizek
You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead
~ Ray Bradbury
I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.
~ Ray Bradbury
Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.
~ Ray Bradbury
There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house, there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why I feel like I'm putting on weight, I feel fat. I feel like I've been saving up a lot of things, and don't konw what. I might even start reading books.
~ Ray Bradbury
You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it.
~ Ray Bradbury
No quería saber cómo se hacen las cosas sino por qué. Esto puede resultar embarazoso. Uno empieza con los porqués y termina siendo realmente desgraciado. La pobre chica está mejor muerta.
~ Ray Bradbury
You as Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it.
~ Ray Bradbury
Você pergunta o porquê de muitas coisas e, se insistir, acaba se tornando realmente muito infeliz.
~ Ray Bradbury
I have been very happy—very fortunate—very proud,' she went on. 'Too fortunate. Too happy for a little while. And now I am unhappy for—for life.
~ Joseph Conrad
He was a dismal man,with a perpetual tear sparkling at the end of his nose,who either had been in trouble,or was in trouble,or expected to be in trouble – couldn't be happy unless something went wrong.
~ Joseph Conrad
man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.
~ Joseph Conrad
Covetousness keeps the mind agitated and unhappy, far from the peace of contentment.
~ Joseph Goldstein
All beings are the heirs of their own karma. Their happiness or unhappiness depends on their actions, not upon my wishes.
~ Joseph Goldstein
Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.
~ Joseph Heller
Oly sok boldogtalanság van a világban, t?nÅ'dött, komoran meghajtva fejét a tragikus gondolat elÅ'tt, és Å' mit sem tehet senki boldogtalansága ellen, legkevésbé a saját boldogtalansága ellen.
~ Joseph Heller