Quotes About Unhappiness

He loved her so much when he made her unhappy, or else when she made him unhappy: at these moments he scarcely knew which was which. He would pat her, standing well back as with strange dogs, stretching out his hand, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." And he was sorry, but there was more to it: he was also gloating, congratulating himself, because he'd managed to create such an effect.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.

I have retired to the library, for I am very unhappy, and I want to be alone.

As for Mael, I couldn't help but note his quiet fury, and it struck me that he had for so long been the author of his own unhappiness, but now something was truly happening which might be a legitmate cause for his pain.

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.

Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness.

I think, life is miserable.

Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

What you must understand about me is that I'm a deeply unhappy person.

in 1906, ill and depressed, unhappy about the continuing opposition of many leading scientists to this kinetic theory of gases, he killed himself

There's nothing lonelier than grief. Sometimes I wanted to cry out to them all in the middle of History "Please please look at me help me can't you see how unhappy I am?" But what would have happened? They would have gathered round making soothing noises helping me out of the room maybe offering me tissues...and none of that would touch the deep dark ocean that circled silently inside. They could not see it touch it stop it. I didn't know any way to do that.

If Miss Valmont's education, treatment, and utter seclusion were most valuable for her, why should she, yet so young, and removed from the common misfortunes of life, why should she be unhappy. You, Sir, may not have perceived this effect of your system; for, although shut within the same boundary and resident under one roof, you seldom see her, and when you do see, you do not study her.

Only a minority of people who are unhappy in their marriages today still feel that way even five years later. Unhappy marriages can and often are turned around when couples learn better communication skills or get helpful counseling, or even when they just stick it out and wait for the stresses that are preying on their marriage to subside. And divorce often brings new, unexpected stresses.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

felt a sense of dismalness.

Kate's unhappiness was like weather, a storm rolling constantly toward or away from her, a force she could feel approaching like a hum of electrical current across her skin before it broke open, soaking her in sadness, and she would have no choice but to brace against the misery until it wore itself out on her and passed on to someone else.

I think now that this obsession with identifying racism, which I saw so often among Somalis too, was really a comfort mechanism, to keep people from feeling personally inadequate and to externalize the causes of their unhappiness.

think now that this obsession with identifying racism, which I saw so often among Somalis too, was really a comfort mechanism, to keep people from feeling personally inadequate and to externalize the causes of their unhappiness

I gave him a photocopy of who I was, without telling him that I was unhappy and humiliated and often, just like him, all alone.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. Oh? Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.