Unhappiness Quotes - Page 25

• It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes with missions which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly, but in all seriousness, teach our European humanity that where parents are not healthy it is a deed pleasing to God to take pity on a poor little healthy orphan child and give him father and mother, than themselves to give birth to a sick child who will only bring unhappiness and suffering on himself and the rest of the world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Mother, Religious

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Anxiety, Unrest

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Believe, Mean

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.

  Ernest Holmes

  War, Philosophy, Men

  Ernest Holmes (1984). “Living the Science of Mind: The Only Writings by the Founder of SCIENCE OF MIND to Help You Understand His Classic Textbook”, p.31, DeVorss & Company

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• Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has been scattered in your midst he has had to maintain a continuous struggle for the conservation of his identity.

  Maurice Samuel

  Struggle, Jewish Identity, Problem

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• That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Men, Progress

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.45

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• If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Unhappy, Happens

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.107, Penguin

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• All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Solitude, Facts

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

  Max Lucado

  Heaven, Attention, Earth

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.226, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Loneliness

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories were about all the pleasant things in life. Since we know our troubles are always coming we want to see in our fiction examples of how others have dealt with them.

  Clarence Major

  Bored, Conflict, Trouble

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.

  Thomas Szasz

  Unhappy, World, Reason Why

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.211, Transaction Publishers

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• The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.

  Jessica Valenti

  Motherhood, Giving, Parent

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Often Is, Unhappy, Satisfaction

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• Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Father, Upset Stomach, Joy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.195, Penguin

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• It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

  Agnes Repplier

  Attention, Way, Steps

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• And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.

  Don Altman

  Hurt, Self, Goal

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• The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Horizon, Sun

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• I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

  John Cleese

  Wish, Together, Whining

  Source: bigthink.com

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• This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Adults, Natural

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Inability, Able

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.174, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

  Jo Brand

  Real, Struggle, People

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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• They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Happiness, Ideas, Knows

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• Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Ebb And Flow, Veins, Explanation

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.818, Delphi Classics

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