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Quotes About Unhappiness

It started yesterday at home. I don't like my birthday. I don't like it at all.
~ Stephen Chbosky
She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hospitals. Finally, she went to a hospital that helped her figure things out enough to try and make things normal, so she moved in with my family.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.
~ Stephen Fry
This is a badly broken world, full of wars and cruelty and senseless tragedy. Every human being who inhabits it is served his or her portion of unhappiness and wake up nights.
~ Stephen King
Big Jim - Take a good look, pal - this is what incompetency, false hope, and too much informations gets you. They're just unhappy and disappointed now, but when they get over that, they'll be mad. We're gonna need more police.
~ Stephen King
Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.
~ Tom Perrotta
I think people get bored of grief," said Natasha. "It's like you're allowed some unspoken allotted time—six months maybe—and then they get faintly irritated that you're not 'better,' like you're being self-indulgent hanging on to your unhappiness.
~ Jojo Moyes
I think people get bored of grief,' said Natasha. 'It's like you're allowed some unspoken allotted time – six months, maybe – and then they get faintly irritated that you're not "better". It's like you're being self-indulgent hanging on to your unhappiness.' 'Yes!
~ Jojo Moyes
He was just one of those people ... one of a thousand expats who'd dragged their unhappiness to the other side of the world, expecting everything to be different, and never quite got over the fact it felt the same.
~ Jon Courtenay Grimwood
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.
~ Jon Ronson
There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
~ Jonathan Franzen
It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily married people are the least happy group of all and they pull down the average.
~ Jonathan Haidt
I'm opposed to segregation. It's basically antisocial and gives rise to the worst kind of sexism... When a boy or girl has been forced along the straight and narrow for an unnatural length of time, most of them rush headlong into unexplored territory at the first brush with freedom. I think it causes a lot of disillusion and unhappiness.
~ Emma Darcy
presto sarebbe volato via pure quello stupido febbraio e il vecchio Alex si sentiva profondamente infelice ma in modo distaccato, come se la sua vita appartenesse - sensazione fin troppo tipica e cruda ne convengo - a qualcun altro
~ Enrico Brizzi
Pe cel?lalt taler al balanÈ›ei st? Parisul. Poate pentru c? n-are niciodat? sfârÈ™it. ?i, în plus, e minunat; el face fa?? la tot, tuturor temeiurilor g?site de om pentru a fi nefericit... De ce eram, Doamne, disperat la Paris? Nici c? puteam fi mai idiot." - Enrique Vila-Matas, "Parisul nu are sfârÈ™it
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
How unhappy are the lives of men! How purblind their hearts!
~ Epicurus
Ketidakbahagiaan datang lewat ketakutan atau keinginan yang tidak terkendali.
~ Epicurus
Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set our foundations depper and reach higher toward the sky. If sadness is what makes us creative, then sadness is nothing else but life.
~ Eric G. Wilson
Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us. I
~ Eric Metaxas
What it is It is madness says reason It is what it is says love It is unhappiness says caution It is nothing but pain says fear It has no future says insight It is what it is says love It is ridiculous says pride It is foolish says caution It is impossible says experience It is what it is says love.
~ Erich Fried
It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Feeding children too often can make them forget what their own hunger feels like. Large portions lead to overeating. And giving food to calm a distressed child teaches them that unhappiness is a reason to eat.
~ Bee Wilson
Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.
~ Bella Pollen
Besides, you are seeking something you have already found but don't knoit. Such are the causes of unhappiness.
~ Ben Okri