Unhappiness Quotes - Page 19

• That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

  Brian Tracy

  Happiness, Self Esteem, Blame Someone

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• Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

  Marcus Aurelius

  Perception, Human Nature, Depends

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• It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Doe, Bitterness

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suicide, Suicidal, Alcohol

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness

  Aesop

  Kindness, Fun, Kids

  Aesop (2014). “The Aesop for Children”, p.63, First Avenue Editions

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• Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Knowing, Silence

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• It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Feelings, Unhappy, Shattered

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.41, Modern Library

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• And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.

  Terry Pratchett

  Unhappy, Way, Painful

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• Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Men, Anxiety

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Men, Unhappy, Different

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.2362, Simon and Schuster

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• Unhappiness was my god.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Arthur Rimbaud, Stanley Appelbaum (2003). “A Season in Hell and Other Works”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Daughter, Sleep

  1598 Leonato, of Beatrice. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.321-5.

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• Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Happiness, Letting Go, Memories

  Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.413, Macmillan

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• Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

  Osamu Dazai

  Struggle, Fighting, People

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Selfish, Thoughtful

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• Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

  David Nicholls

  Easier, Jokes

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• It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.

  Robert Cormier

  Nice, Solitude, Would Be

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• Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.

  Paulo Coelho

  Goodbye, Art, Couple

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• Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Unhappy, Causes

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• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Laughing, Stories, World

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

  B. C. Forbes

  Army, Selfishness, Humans

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• It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.

  Alice Munro

  Emotional, World, Unfair

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Mar 10, 2013

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