Unhappiness Quotes - Page 27

• Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

  Ivan Panin

  Unhappy, Unfortunate, Depends

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• My wife is really unhappy with my agent. But I'm the big winner.

  James Denton

  Wife, Unhappy, Agents

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• The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.

  Philip Roth

  Men, Tragedy, He Man

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Sweet, Taken, Years

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• Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Degradation, Poverty

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• The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Buddhist, Inspiration

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• No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, People, Life Happiness

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• There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  War, Too Much, Illusion

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• To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.

  Chica Umino

  Moon, Night, Hands

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• Combining paid employment with marriage and motherhood creates safeguards for emotional well-being. Nothing is certain in life, but generally the chances of happiness are greater if one has multiple areas of interest and involvement. To juggle is to diminish the risk of depression, anxiety, and unhappiness.

  Faye J Crosby

  Depression, Motherhood, Emotional

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, Achieve, Easier

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Unhappy, Pennsylvania, Qualms

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• A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Wish, Progress

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Use, Force

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• Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
  Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

  Ovid

  Patience, One Day, Endure

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• The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Nature, Ignorance, Animal

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• Don't be too much concerned about money, because that is the greatest distraction against happiness. And the irony of ironies is that people think they will be happy when they have money. Money has nothing to do with happiness. If you are happy and you have money, you can use it for happiness. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will use that money for more unhappiness. Because money is simply a neutral force.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Money, Thinking

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• The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

  Lucian

  Happiness, Night, Thinking

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• We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Happiness, Happy, Wish

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• There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Compassion, Sight

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Way, Feels

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.130, A&C Black

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• Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.

  Nick Hornby

  Cold, Drag, No Money

  Nick Hornby (2005). “High Fidelity”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?

  Maya Banks

  Heart, Two, Matter

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