Quotes About Unhappiness

Now she felt as if she were dully humming with an unpleasant, low-grade drunkenness.

Susannah was lonely; I knew that about her, could see it among all the other small trophies of unhappiness that she lined up on triumphant display for me, the way children often do, providing an entire museum of disappointments and inviting the parents in, as if to say: You see? You see how you fucked me up and what it led to? It led to this!

Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.

The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!

Laughter is a protest scream against death, against the long goodbye. It's a defense against unhappiness and depression.

It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry -- school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general -- but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place.

We grow angry at our suffering; we resent and complain and make others pay for our unhappiness.

Is it not clear, therefore, that happiness is a state of being, and unhappiness is a state of doing? So long as our mind is active or doing something, thinking one thought or another, we experience only a mixture of happiness and unhappiness, and whatever happiness we do experience in the midst of that mixture is imperfect, limited and relative. We experience perfect, unlimited and absolute happiness only when our mind becomes perfectly still.

Every choice closes doors ," I said, "and at some point you are left in the little room of yourself. I think most people who get to that room go crazy because they're surrounded with missed possibilities and no principle to explain or justify why they made the choices they did. I don't invite unhappiness, Aaron. Avoiding conflict may not be the noblest principle, but it works for me.

We get given our faces, thinks Audie, but we inherit our lives, our happiness and our unhappiness. Some get a lot, some get a little. Some savor every morsel and suck the marrow out of every bone. We take pleasure in the sound of rain, the smell of cut grass, the smiles of strangers, the feeling of dawn on a hot day. We learn things and realize we can never know more than we don't know. We catch love like a cold and cling to it like wreckage in a storm.

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

Unhappiness isn't at its most acute point until a realistic chance of happiness, sufficiently close, has been envisioned.

I can't hide the truth: I will end my life unhappy, cantankerous and alone, and I will have deserved it.

Päinvastoin kuin nautinto, halu itsessään tuottaa kärsimystä, vihaa ja onnettomuutta.

En todo caso, a cualquier observador imparcial le resulta evidente que el individuo humano no puede ser feliz, que no ha sido concebido en absoluto para la felicidad, y que su único destino posible es propagar la desgracia a su alrededor, haciendo que la vida de los demás sea tan intolerable como la suya propia; y por lo general, sus primeras víctimas son sus padres.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be. Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

After six months of hardship and going to therapy three times a week, Sandy's now elated. She realized—as has almost everyone I know who has been left or broken up with—that, by divorcing her, her husband relieved her of the job of eventually leaving him. As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet. Sandy hadn't realized how unhappy she was until he was gone.

hacia el final, inventó una lengua nueva y desconocida, la lengua de la infelicidad, esa en la que están escritos todos los libros verdaderos.

La lengua de la infelicidad, esa en la que están escritos todos los libros verdaderos.