Quotes About Unhappiness

Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.

I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.

Very happy or unhappy, people disappear.

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

Unhappiness is the resultant of what you desire and happiness of what you don't.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

Unhappiness is such a heavy burden, those who carry it, when ever possible, unload it onto those around them.

Life, then will, always contain an inevitable surplus, a margin of the gratuitous, a realm in which there is always more than we need: more things, more impressions, more memories, more habits, more words, more happiness, more unhappiness.

The karma of the fishermen spins out as they head out across the lake dropping a line into the depths— delighted when they see a golden-eyed fish, and unhappy when they do not.

Look, I know from the outside it doesn't look so bad... I know I had all the advantages. I know my parents loved me. But that makes it worse, don't you see?... The way it is, all the unhappiness seems to be my responsibility, my fault.

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

las personas desdichadas se empeñan en averiguar muchas veces la magnitud de su desdicha, o en indagar vidas ajenas para abstraerse de las suyas.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.