Unhappiness Quotes - Page 26

• I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

  Terence McKenna

  Use, Neurosis, Modern

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• I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body of an unfortunate sibling, or with a fellow family member, and you end up even unconsciously rejoicing in the other person's unhappiness and being like, I am happy because I can see how unhappy these other people are.

  Marco Roth

  Revenge, Sibling, Climbing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or any of the precepts perfectly. But because of the real danger in our society-alcoholism has destroyed so many families and has brought about much unhappiness-we have to do something. We have to live in a way that will eradicate that kind of damage. That is why even if you can be very healthy with one glass of wine every week, I still urge you with all my strength to abandon that glass of wine.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Wine, Glasses

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• Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction the we alone suffer to the point of unbearable intensity. Unhappiness is always to feel oneself imprisoned in one's own skin, in one's own brain.

  Jacques Lusseyran

  Thinking, Brain, Suffering

  Jacques Lusseyran (2016). “Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness”, p.143, New World Library

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• As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.

  Jane Siberry

  Land, Creating, People

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• In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there view their job as being to make sure their kid never has a moment of unhappiness. Of course, as a parent myself, I can understand the urge, but I don't know whether it would be healthy or possible.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Children, Kids

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• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Laughter, Animal

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (16), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Opposites, Focus

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.

  Kate Zambreno

  Years, Feelings, Language

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.

  David Brooks

  Country, Real, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like hers, a life of promiscuity, rootlessness, and substance abuse, resentment and fear tend to replace all reasonable and proper emotions, and the world becomes your enemy.

  J. Robert Lennon

  Fear, Taken, Enemy

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• My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Self, People

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What we do to others will come back to us. You can't expect to be happy by causing unhappiness to others.

  Sharon Gannon

  "Choose Joy, Eat Vegan". Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, August 7, 2014.

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• The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to others. In many ancient languages, the word for enemy means "one who falls out of rhythm; one who is not working in harmony with the larger group."

  Sharon Gannon

  Selfish, Fall, Mean

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.

  James Hillman

  Character, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

  Graham Greene

  Taken, Hands, Ideas

  'The Heart of the Matter' (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 1

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• For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Japan, Mind, Spirit

  Source: www.elle.com

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• They [leftists] want to eliminate the concept of winners and losers. They want to wipe out the fact that there are any differences, particularly outcome differences, from one person to another. The things that they seek are not possible. The things that they seek are rooted in self-loathing, misery, unhappiness, crankiness, whatever.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Self, Differences, Wipe

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

  William Godwin

  Two, Long, Wish

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• What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

  Scott Turow

  Suicide, Odds, Drug

  Scott Turow (2006). “Limitations”, p.119, Macmillan

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• When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Men, Facts

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you're unhappy with the way you played, what's the point?

  Bode Miller

  Unhappy, Way, Ifs

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• There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.

  Romano Prodi

  Italian, Terrible, Conditions

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• Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

  Rebecca West

  Body, Poverty, Spirit

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.42, Open Road Media

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