Quotes About Unhappiness

ANIMA Ma dimmi, eccellenza e infelicità straordinaria sono sostanzialmente una cosa stessa? […] NATURA Nelle anime degli uomini […] si può dire che l'una e l'altra cosa sieno quasi il medesimo: perché l'eccellenza delle anime importa maggiore intensione della loro vita; la qual cosa importa maggior sentimento dell'infelicità propria; che è come se io dicessi maggiore infelicità. ( Dialogo della Natura e di un'Anima )

Les hommes, qui sont malheureux par essence, veulent croire qu'ils le sont par accident.

Dove ci sono buone notizie non c'è letteratura - chi lo ha detto? La letteratura esiste solo per indagare le meccaniche dell'infelicità; se no è spazzatura, è robaccia commerciale, a prescindere. In ogni caso per evitare equivoci, tu sei sempre stato d'accordo con questa idea di letteratura. Il che è normale, se sei un intellettuale fallito.

Sometimes Discontent is unknown to the sufferer, a shadowed thing that creeps up from behind. It had been that way for Mary. Of course she knew there were reasons for her unhappiness, there are always reasons. One thinks, I am unhappy, I am discontent, because of this or that. But such thoughts are like a painting of sorrow, not sorrow itself. Then one day it comes, hushed and ferocious, and reasons don't matter anymore." - The Outlander by Gil Adamson

SOMETIMES DISCONTENT is unknown to the sufferer, a shadowed thing that creeps up from behind. It had been that way for Mary. Of course, she knew there were reasons for her unhappiness, there are always reasons. One thinks, I am unhappy, I am discontent, because of this or that. But such thoughts are like a painting of sorrow, not sorrow itself. Then one day it comes, hushed and ferocious, and reasons don't matter any more.

When you hate yourself enough, there is a sharp tinge of satisfaction in unhappiness.

The you is programmed for unhappiness because it is programmed to seek that which can never bring true happiness. It goes after more and better and different from whatever is actually present, and that creates ceaseless searching and dissatisfaction with whatever is found. This is a very unhappy predicament, and yet this is the human condition.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

...the question isn't whether you're happy or unhappy but alive or dead.

Those who lack a central purpose in life fall prey to worries, fears, and petty troubles, and end up stuck in self-pity. They may appear virtuous, because they lack any glaring faults and make no great mistakes, but they take a long, winding route to failure and unhappiness just the same.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.

He who is daily living in harshness, impurity, or unhappiness is day by day adding to the sum of the world's misery; whereas he who continually lives in goodwill, and does not depart from happiness, is day by day increasing the sum of the world's happiness, and this independently of any religious beliefs which these may or may not hold.

Life is a series of lessons. Some are diligent in learning them, and they become pure, wise, and altogether happy. Others are negligent, and do not apply themselves. They remain impure, foolish, and unhappy.

Every form of unhappiness springs from a wrong condition of mind. Happiness is inherent in right conditions of mind. Happiness is mental harmony, unhappiness is mental inharmony. While a man lives in wrong conditions of mind, he will live a wrong life, and will suffer continually.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

Dwelling on negativity won't suddenly have positive results. It only brings more negativity into your head. You can't buy happiness with the currency of unhappiness. The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

People fool themselves into thinking that the currency of unhappiness will buy them happiness. That we have to "pay our dues," go on some sort of ride, and then get dropped off at a big location called our "purpose," where now we can be happy. It doesn't work that way.

I don't like the word purpose. It implies that somewhere in the future I will find something that will make me happy, and that until then, I will be unhappy. People fool themselves into thinking that the currency of unhappiness will buy them happiness. That we have to "pay our dues," go on some sort of ride, and then get dropped off at a big location called our "purpose," where now we can be happy.

people are very, very busy walking around you, paying with the currency of unhappiness now in order to reach their glorious futures someday…maybe.

to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into the ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however,requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about. So, train your mind to dwell on sweet perfumes...

In a childhood full of unhappiness and rage, Babar is one of the few pleasant memories i have. Me and Babar, kicking some motherfucking ass.

Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

There is a lot of unhappiness in this world. Try not to feed it.