Quotes About Unhappiness

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Sigurno je da mnogi ljudi cijelog svog zivota i ne slute kako nesrecnih ljudi ima na svijetu.

Each of them had personal, real or imagined, but deep reasons for dissatisfaction with life. Furthermore they had one great reason in common; both felt themselves to be unhappy and like outcasts in this town and this society of officers, for the most part frivolous and empty-headed. So they clung to one another feverishly like two survivors of a shipwreck.

And when we make choices informed by a depressive state of mind, they're more than likely to keep us stuck in our unhappiness.

Our reactions to unhappiness can transform what might otherwise be a brief, passing sadness into persistent dissatisfaction and unhappiness.

My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like hers, a life of promiscuity, rootlessness, and substance abuse, resentment and fear tend to replace all reasonable and proper emotions, and the world becomes your enemy.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI

Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

Unos días se siente feliz, incluso privilegiado, por vivir con una mujer bella, o al menos por no vivir solo. Otros días se siente de otro modo. ¿Qué es verdad: la felicidad, la infelicidad o un punto medio entre una y otra?

Cuando eres esencialmente infeliz, estar con la persona que amas no es suficiente.

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

the appearances of happiness or unhappiness of the soul are but reflections.