Unhappiness Quotes - Page 17

• Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

  Denis Diderot

  Race, Hands, Soul

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• 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.

  Claude Monet

  Success, Age, Realizing

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

  Joseph Joubert

  Unhappy, Consolation, Console

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Accountants, Beggar

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• When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Happiness, Spring, Anxiety

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• ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Italian, Play

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.240, 谷月社

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• Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Moments, States, Unconscious

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.44, New World Library

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• [On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Beautiful, Cities, Paris

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• When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness-hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

  Terri E Apter

  Daughter, Mother, Good Relationship

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• Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

  Alice James

  People, Unhappy, Way

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

  Storm Jameson

  Satisfaction, Misery, Victim

  Storm Jameson (1932). “That was yesterday”

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• The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Vices, Deceit

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• There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.

  Tony Robbins

  Unhappy, Groups, Reorganization

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• Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

  Aldous Huxley

  Malice, Folly, Consequence

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• When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Unhappy, Life Is

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• Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

  Eleanora Duse

  Teacher, Growth, Sorrow

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• My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  People, Purpose, Causes

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

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• .. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Needs, Way

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• Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

  Robertson Davies

  Support, Doe, Fortitude

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying, his unhappiness. He’d put a lot of energy into it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Envy, Unhappy

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• Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

  Georges Simenon

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”

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• But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

  Sarah Vowell

  Good Life, Wine, Lunch

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• It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Queens, Flower, Healing

  "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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• My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.

  W. Bruce Cameron

  Dog, Pain, Purpose

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• Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Adrenal Glands, Recipes, Evolution

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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