Unhappiness Quotes - Page 16

• I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Doubt, Suffering

  "Studies on Hysteria". Book by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, as translated by Nicola Luckhurst (2004), 1895.

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• But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it!

  Simone Berteaut

  Happiness

  Simone Berteaut (1972). “Piaf: a biography”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

  Lucy Freeman

  Parent, Unhappy, Endless

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• One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.

  Jo Coudert

  Hunting, Punishment, Judging

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.197, iUniverse

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• Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.

  Linda Howard

  Breakup, Thinking, People

  Linda Howard (2007). “Up Close and Dangerous: A Novel”, p.190, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Money, Husband, Fascination

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• real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Real, Long, Suffering

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). “Glenarvon (1816).”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Emotional, Hands, Worry

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• Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Free Yourself

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• To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

  Honore de Balzac

  Live Life, Passion, Eye

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• It is entirely wrong to think that we have done, or can do, good to the world, or to think that we have helped such and such people. It is a foolish thought, and all foolish thoughts bring misery. We think that we have helped some man and expect him to thank us, and because he does not, unhappiness comes to us. Why should we expect anything in return for what we do? Be grateful to the man you help, think of him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Grateful, Men, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.40, Advaita Ashrama

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• Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.

  Fanny Burney

  Happiness, Disappointment, Giving Up

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3747, Delphi Classics

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• I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

  Elizabeth I

  Regret, Slave, Form

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• ... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

  Albert Camus

  Marriage, Freedom, Believe

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• Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Sorrow, Refuge

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• Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

  Mason Cooley

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

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• The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Cheerful, Topics

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• Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,
  Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
  Thought

  Edmund Spenser

  Wings, Poetry, Flying

  Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd (1859). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser”, p.15

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• Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

  Nella Larsen

  Kindness, Thinking, Religion

  Nella Larsen (2010). “The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories”, p.188, Anchor

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• When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Imbalance, Sides

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• We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have served a valuable function in helping to make a decision. But once the decision is made, let the picture go. Since you can't control the future, the picture can create unhappiness if it's not fulfilled. Disappointment may make you miss the good that can come out of every situation in which you find yourself.

  Susan Jeffers

  Disappointment, Eye, Expectations

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.135, Random House

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• In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.

  Dorothea Brande

  Running, Years, Differences

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• the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Argument, Responsible, Sexism

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Unhappy, Spirit, Lucifer

  'Doctor Faustus' (1604) act 1, sc. 3

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• a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

  Margaret Deland

  Cutting, Taste, Jokes

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