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Quotes About Unhappiness

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!
~ Charles M. Schulz
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Some people have a talent for being happy and others appear to find unhappiness almost as if they sought it.
~ Charles Palliser
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
~ Mark Twain
Seek happiness and you will find unhappiness. There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path. Happiness is a state of mind. A state of surrender to and acceptance of what is. Reality experienced through presence. We cannot live in the future nor the past, but we can choose to be held prisoner. To be set free we must move into this moment. This moment is all that exists and all that will ever exist. If we choose not to be happy now, Then When?
~ H.W. Mann
Unhappiness is directly proportional to our denial of reality
~ H.W. Mann
what fuels human unhappiness in both the personal and political realm can be boiled down to these three key emotions—anxiety, fear, and shame.
~ Harriet Lerner
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
~ Haruki Murakami
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story .
~ Haruki Murakami
Our thoughts have prepared for us the happiness or unhappiness we experience.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Refusing to smile, refusing to agree, refusing to comply: These things mean that you are difficult and you want to be unhappy.
~ Heather Havrilesky
Unhappiness isn't the worst thing in the world. It doesn't last forever and it usually teaches you something about yourself.
~ Laurie Colwin
Sve sretne obitelji su podjednako, svaki nesretna obitelj nesretna je na svoj na?in.
~ Lav Tolstoj
Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to which all the sorrows of the house were referred. I felt unhappy under the ill-will even of this odious old woman, being one of those unhappily constructed mortals who cannot be indifferent when they reasonably ought, and always yearn after kindness, even that of the worthless.
~ Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.
~ leary timothy
Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
~ Leo Buscaglia
I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.
~ Jane Austen
for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.
~ Jane Austen
Bennet would have been very miserable;
~ Jane Austen
there were many well-qualified but unhappy wives in Cambridge whose individual talents had been totally disregarded, spurned by a system which refused to acknowledge that wives and mothers might be capable of an intellectual identity of their own.
~ Jane Hawking
The damned could be saved...anytime. But they refused to give up their sins. Though they suffered endlessly, they would not give them up, even for salvation, perfect divine love. I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.
~ Janet Fitch
You know I'm never happy. I'm not happy, unless I'm miserable.
~ Tom Thibodeau
Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.
~ Ruskin Bond
I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I've got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated.
~ Kate O'Mara