Quotes About Unhappiness

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn't know that my face was streamed with tears.

You will not able to find peace if you are the source of unhappiness for others.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

There is a tremendous irony in happiness. It comes from a root word meaning 'by chance' or 'an occurrence', which in a positive sense connotes a sense of newness, wonder, and appreciation of chance occurrences. The irony is that people not only seek it, they try to hold on to it—especially to avoid any sense of 'unhappiness'. Unfortunately, these very control efforts can become heavy, planned, closed, rigid and fixed.

Neither good nor ill is done to us by Fortune: she merely offers us the matter and the seeds: our soul, more powerful than she is, can mould it or sow them as she pleases, being the only cause and mistress of our happy state or our unhappiness.

Hvor grotesk er ikke et vesen som føler avsky for sin egen person, som blir nedtrykt av sine gleder og ser på seg selv som en ulykke!

Nu exist? oameni r?i pe lume, exist? doar oameni neferici?i.

I only know this, that if I am the cause of unhappiness in others I myself am no less unhappy.

Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.

My dear colleagues, as you know, the greatest misfortune for a man is a happy marriage; he hasn't the slightest hope of a divorce.

Indeed, all he remembers are situations that make him displeased with himself.

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more you entertain your unhappiness

A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more your entertain unhappiness!

I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him...to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good...

Knowledge is always a good thing, even when it makes us unhappy

Zen Buddhism teaches that the main cause of human suffering and unhappiness is "attachment." People become attached to ideas, opinions, and material things, and then they are reluctant to let go of them.

My unhappiness was rooted in my mother's inability to stop drinking.

My unhappiness was rooted in my mother's inability to stop drinking. My sense of worthlessness stemmed from feeling insecure as to who I was and inadequate in getting my mother to stop drinking. I had lower self-esteem

As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my youngest brother left home for college. I only wish they had known that modeling their dysfunctional relationship was far more damaging to their children than their separation would have been.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

When [faith] healers treat serious organic disease, they are responsible for untold anguish and unhappiness Ã¢â'¬Â¦ The healers become killers.