16 quotes about Unhappiness



Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.
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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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