Unhappiness Quotes - Page 12

• The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

  Mason Cooley

  Confusion, Mastery, Aphorism

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• Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Religious, Profound, Paradise

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Pain, Enjoy

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• Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.

  Mason Cooley

  Embrace, Treats, Defects

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• Once we have a firm practice of compassion our state of mind becomes stronger which leads to inner peace, giving rise to self-confidence, which reduces fear. This makes for constructive members of the community. Self-centredness on the other hand leads to distance, suspicion, mistrust and loneliness, with unhappiness as the result.

  Dalai Lama

  Distance, Loneliness, Self Confidence

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• The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Unhappy

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Selfish, Past, Sorrow

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• Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Misery, Hysterical, Turns

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• If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.

  Tony Hsieh

  Stress, Roof Over Your Head, Needs

  "Big Think Interview With Tony Hsieh". Interview with Peter Hopkins, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Selfish, People, Goal

  "Are You Happy Now?". Chat with readers, www.slate.com. January 15, 2009.

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• So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

  Graham Greene

  Delay, Life Is, Lost

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

  Francis Bacon

  Feelings, Special, Emotion

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• Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

  Abigail Adams

  Disappointment, Arise, Notion

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.5

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• Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Time, Unhappy, Nostalgia

  Alexandre Dumas (1904). “Chevalier d'Harmental”

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• It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Selfish, Character, Years

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Thinking, Alive, World

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• In all my unhappiness I was moving, and suddenly, this moving became an expression, a speaking out

  Mary Wigman

  Moving, Expression, Speaking Out

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• What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Determine, Persons, Impotence

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• What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

  Jacques Maritain

  Men, Unhappy, Knows

  "The last word on Depression" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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• I am the Saudi Arabia of unhappiness. I have so many reserves of misery that you wouldn't understand. I actually think that's part of why I connect with Canadians. I think they understand grinding misery underneath.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, Arabia, Misery

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

  Dov Davidoff

  Happiness, Expectations

  Dov Davidoff (2017). “Road Dog: Life and Reflections from the Road as a Stand-up Comic”, p.153, St. Martin's Press

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• 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

  Inspiration, World, Mercy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.126, Penguin

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• A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.

  Cyril Connolly

  Real, Passion, Two

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• Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavor to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To an extent they represented an attempt to reject the horrors of adult life as it was in favor of a return to the wonder of childhood, but the eroticism was all-important, they became an erotic liberation for me.

  Hans Bellmer

  Childhood, Anxiety, Erotic

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• Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

  Polly Toynbee

  Happiness, Real, Mean

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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