Unhappiness Quotes - Page 23

• All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Dark, Clouds

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• There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Nice, Design, Reason

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• I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Writing, Fighting, Unhappy

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• I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

  Georges Bataille

  Despair, Innocence, Blame

  Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

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• Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Brother, Growing Up

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• Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Talking, Listening, Unhappy

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.15, Zondervan

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• It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry - school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general - but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place.

  Melanie Thernstrom

  School, Unhappy, Sawdust

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• The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Pain, Silly

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• All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Evil, World, Concepts

  "Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.

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• What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

  Chris Prentiss

  Mean, Events, States

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.17, BookBaby

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• We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

  Sharon Gannon

  Causes, Ifs

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• Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Too Much, Crime, Insensibility

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• If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Expectations, Recipes, Ifs

  "Depending on God" by Yasmin Mogahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2011.

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• Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

  Catherine the Great

  Heart, Unhappy, Doe

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• There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hunger, Finest, Ifs

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• Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession; as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Sea, Soldier

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.56

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• To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that may bring us sorrow, distress, or unhappiness, and bear them patiently for as long as God wishes.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Mean, Long, Sorrow

  "The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses".

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• Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

  Grant Cardone

  People, Expectations, Suffering

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Dec 20, 2016

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• You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

  Carole L. Glickfeld

  Unhappy, Flow, States

  Carole L. Glickfeld (2001). “Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.

  Anne Enright

  Hate, Games, Play

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• Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Envy, Unhappy

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “Love Over Scotland”, p.307, Hachette UK

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• There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

  P. D. James

  Couple, Unhappy, Proud

  P.D. James (2012). “Unnatural Causes”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

  William Hartston

  Pain, Victory, Chess

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• The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Marriage, Sex, Men

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• Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

  Judith Wright

  Marriage, Growth, Path

  Judith Wright (2003). “There Must Be More Than This: Finding More Life, Love and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions”, Broadway

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