Unhappiness Quotes - Page 13

• If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

  Anthony de Mello

  Emotional, Attachment, Names

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• Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

  Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

  War, Money Power, Strife

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• I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns,  where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.

  Grace Kelly

  People, Suffering, Towns

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• Men and women are not "equal" if "equal" means "exactly the same." Our many puzzlements and indeed unhappinesses come from trying to figure out what the differences really mean, or should mean, or should not mean.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Men, Differences

  "Ask the Author". www.goodreads.com.

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• As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Struggle, Honor, Moments

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.68, New World Library

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• Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a place where we're still close enough to comfort to understand our unhappiness. Most of the things we desire are things that can destroy us.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Desire, Comfort, Moments

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Don't blame yourself for other people's choices, including their choice of unhappiness.

  Doreen Virtue

  People, Choices, Blame

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• Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Energy, Disease

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.18, New World Library

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• Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Causes, Doe, Make You Happy

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jul 05, 2012

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• The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

  Allan Lokos

  Uplifting, Practice, Meditation

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• How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

  Petrarch

  Littles, Woe, Bliss

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• The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hot, Burning, Dry

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• Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Spiritual, Greatness

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2014). “The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones”, p.94, SPCK

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• Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

  Le Corbusier

  Eye, Style, Modernity

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Artist, Littles, Today

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.86, Faber & Faber

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• The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

  Larry McMurtry

  Sadness, People, Sorrow

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Endurance, Resistance

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

  Iris Murdoch

  Sadness, Piercings, Midst

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “A Word Child”, p.3, Random House

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• When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.

  John Keats

  Morning, Flower, Fall

  'Ode on Melancholy' (1820) st. 2

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• The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud.

  Lucy Larcom

  Real, Clouds, Feelings

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Order, People

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• Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

  Euripides

  Two, Wretched

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.47, University of Chicago Press

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• It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

  George Santayana

  Men, Easy, Wretchedness

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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• Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pain, Men, Unhappy

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• The wretched reflect either too much or too little.

  Publilius Syrus

  Littles, Too Much, Wretched

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