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Quotes About Unhappiness

The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!
~ Kim Harrison
Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc in our adult lives.
~ Lauren Mackler
All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
~ Leo Tolstoy
What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.
~ David Cassidy
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
~ Thomas Huxley
Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.
~ Unknown
Unhappiness within our own life will lead us to find happiness in forbidden places
~ Unknown
The feeling of being sick, but you're not really sick. You're just sad, upset, unhappy. You just feel like laying in bed all day.
~ Unknown
And with the intermittent coarseness that reappeared in him as soon as he was no longer unhappy and the level of his morality dropped accordingly, he exclaimed to himself: "To think that I wasted years of my life, that I wanted to die, that I felt my deepest love, for a woman who did not appeal to me, who was not my type!
~ Marcel Proust
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.
~ Marcel Proust
And thus for the first time my unhappiness was regarded no longer as a punishable offence but as an involuntary ailment which had been officially recognised, a nervous condition for which I was in no way responsible.
~ Marcel Proust
?nsan mutsuz oldu?u andan itibaren ahlakç? olur.
~ Marcel Proust
He will make any woman happy a little while and then unhappy a long while.
~ Marge Piercy
He likes to complain. It feels natural to him. He was unhappy a long time, and complaining makes him feel as if he's warding off greater evil.
~ Marge Piercy
Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive.
~ Marie Corelli
He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.
~ Samuel Beckett, Endgame
There's been so much destruction and unhappiness around me – and my life has been a fairy tale.
~ Unknown
Russians can be unhappy, yet still loyal. Putin is to a large extent being rated not as a man, not even as a politician, but as an icon of Russia. To vote for him is not to endorse a program, but to express patriotism
~ Unknown
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
~ Haruki Murakami
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
~ Émile Durkheim
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
~ Oscar Wilde
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love
~ Baruch Spinoza