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Quotes About Unhappiness

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.
~ Barbara Hutton
Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.
~ Michael Neill
A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.
~ Thomas Szasz
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".
~ Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
~ Douglas Coupland
Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
~ Coco Chanel
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
~ James Altucher
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
~ Gautama Buddha
Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.
~ Coco Chanel
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.
~ Piero Scaruffi
There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness
~ Eckhart Tolle
The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
~ Colley Cibber
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
~ Honore de Balzac
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
~ Lauren Oliver
The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.
~ Dov Davidoff
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.
~ Gretchen Rubin
What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy