Unhappiness Quotes - Page 18

• Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.

  Bella Pollen

  Heart, Smell, Unhappy

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Sorrow

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

  Lauren Oliver

  Bondage

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

  John Gray

  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spirit, Hateful, Miserable

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.109, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  World, Easier, Beats

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• Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

  Lauren Oliver

  Finding Happiness, Way, Bondage

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

  Graham Greene

  Discipline, Long, Habit

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.

  Hugh Laurie

  Games, Way, Misery

  "A brighter life for Hugh Laurie". Interview with Amy Jory, www.standard.co.uk. June 13, 2002.

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• As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Doe, May

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• Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Moments, Lost, Moments Of Happiness

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• The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

  Albert Camus

  Adventure, Sea, Long

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.303, Vintage

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• The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Unhappy, Want

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• I don't think unhappiness is fated.

  Michelle Moran

  Thinking

  Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.1239, Broadway Books

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• How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.

  Francis Frangipane

  Unhappy, Blame, Christ

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• Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

  Laura Esquivel

  Communication, Keys, Keeping Secrets

  Laura Esquivel (2002). “Swift as Desire”, Random House

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• A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

  Gertrude Stein

  Artist, Sorrow, Littles

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.108, Vintage

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• To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can´t have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren´t satisfied - before working some more.

  Mitch Albom

  Taken, Self Worth, Mirrors

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• The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

  Nick Hornby

  Song, People, Listening

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

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• They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.

  James Allen

  Fall, Loss, Self

  James Allen (2008). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.19, Penguin

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• Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Understanding, Architect

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• They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Children, Husband, College

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.230, Macmillan

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• Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Sad, Order, Interesting

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• Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

  Eddie Barclay

  Being Happy, Unhappy

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• Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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