Unhappiness Quotes - Page 20

• Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Years, Insecurity

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• Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Depression, Depressing, Mean

  "The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future" by Theodore J. Kaczynski, ("Control of Human Behavior", item 145), 1995.

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• It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.

  Tom Perrotta

  Cheating, Alternatives, Hunger

  Tom Perrotta (2013). “Little Children”, p.144, Allison & Busby

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• My unhappiness protects me from life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Protect

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech

  Scott Adams

  Thinking, People, Speech

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• Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

  Tom Perrotta

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.

  Nancy Mitford

  Believe, People, Unhappy

  "Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie".

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• People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.

  Avi

  Needs, Cures, Persons

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• I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Unhappy, Pieces

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• As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Struggle

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

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• There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

  Shannon Hale

  Sad, Soul, Tears

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• Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.

  Michel Foucault

  Eye, Loss, Men

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• When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.

  Amy Tan

  Wall, Home, House

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.330, Penguin

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• The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Dream, Cheer

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

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• Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

  Mason Cooley

  Moving, Doe, Literature

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  Umberto Eco

  Sadness, Fate, Destiny

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• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.168

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• I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

  Lynn Johnston

  Thinking, People, Like Yourself

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. May 16,2012.

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• I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Husband, Guilt, Blame

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• To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Soul, Unrest

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• What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

  Colin Powell

  Wall, Thinking, People

  "Colin Powell: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations Are ‘As American As Apple Pie’". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Teenage, Years

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• We become moral when we are unhappy.

  Marcel Proust

  Unhappy, Moral

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