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Quotes About Unhappiness

I honestly think that depression, unhappiness or the feeling of emptiness is more a lack of amazement about life than anything else.
~ Jellis Vaes
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
~ Boethius
Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.
~ Moss Hart
I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.
~ Edna O'Brien
Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
~ Bram Stoker
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
~ Antonin Artaud
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
~ Bertrand Russell
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
~ Vernon Howard
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
~ David Hume
I barricaded myself and stared out the window, without seeing anything but my own unhappiness.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
~ Thomas Carlyle
When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.
~ Nick Hornby
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.
~ Nick Hornby
Jen leggeva. Amava i libri... io, no: a me facevano paura. Mi facevan paura quando c'era lei, e me ne fanno di più adesso. Che cosa avevano dentro? Che cosa le hanno detto quando era infelice e ascoltava solo loro, e nessun altro - né le sue amiche né sua sorella, nessuno?
~ Nick Hornby
Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.
~ Nick Hornby
Man kann sich über jeden lustig machen, der unglücklich ist, man muss nur grausam genug sein.
~ Nick Hornby
What I needed more than anything was a place where unfocused unhappiness could thrive, where I could be still and worry and mope: I had the blues, and when I watched my team I could unwrap them and let them breathe a little.
~ Nick Hornby
Quando sei infelice, secondo me, tutto nel mondo - leggere, mangiare, dormire - ha chiuso dentro qualcosa, da qualche parte, che serve a renderti ancora più infelice
~ Nick Hornby
It's a terrible thing, finding out that your lover is so unhappy he wants to die. It's a time for self-reflection.
~ Nick Hornby
Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.
~ Nick Hornby
Happiness always takes us by surprise, or perhaps it is not happiness. It is one's unhappiness diminished in size.
~ Nirmal Verma
Thus many a melody passed to and fro between the two nightingales, drunk with their passion. Those who heard them listened in delight, and so similar were the two voices that they sounded like a single chant. Born of pain and longing, their song had the power to break the unhappiness of the world.
~ Nizami Ganjavi