Quotes About Unhappiness

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

I think we go about desiring things all day long, and then wondering why we're unhappy.

It's the hunger; the hunger for an alternative and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness...

Every happy family is happy in the same way. Every unhappy family is unhappy in different ways.

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognise them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.

I understand that she was very unhappy, and maybe she was so devastated by her mother's death that she couldn't stand to face it. But who just abandons their family in that way? What kind of person decides that they can throw everything away and reinvent themselves? As if you could just discard the parts of your life that you didn't want anymore.

If you have regard to your future happiness, any view of living comfortably with a husband, any hope of preserving your fortunes or restoring them after any disaster, never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.

El estado de ánimo de las personas cuando su mente divaga tiende, hablando en términos generales, hacia lo displacentero, hasta el punto de que pensamientos con un contenido aparentemente neutro se ven ensombrecidos por una carga emocional negativa. Pareciera como si la mente errante fuese, en parte o casi totalmente, una de las causas de la infelicidad.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

You hear more than enough of married people living together miserably.

Buttercup's parents did not have exactly what you might call a happy marriage. All they ever dreamed of was leaving each other.

Talking further about it and realizing how deep my unhappiness went would only fill him with sorrow and guilt. That's how love stops us when it might be healthier to speak out, to not let frustration and rage build up until it explodes.

I was unhappy too. And until we own our history, she thought, I thought, there can be no change.

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