Unhappiness Quotes - Page 28

• I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Lovely, Saws, Causes

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.87

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• He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

  August Strindberg

  Children, Independent, Doe

  August Strindberg (2014). “Married”, p.229, The Floating Press

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• The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Doe

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 19, 2015

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• For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

  S. N. Goenka

  Real, Journey, Mind

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• Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.

  James E. Faust

  Men, Years, Listening

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• Why do you need to fly so much?” she asked. “If I don’t, it’ll catch up with me.” The words just came out. “What will?” I took my hands from my face, panting. I stared out at the storm. “Unhappiness.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Hands, Storm, Needs

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• On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spring, War, Passion

  "Pensées and Other Writings".

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• Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

  Paul Bourget

  Happiness, Thinking, Ill Health

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• Invest in your work life balance. Time with friends and family is as important as times at work. Getting that out of balance is a path toward unhappiness.

  Stephen Gillett

  Balance, Important, Family And Friends

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• Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

  August Strindberg

  Happiness, Fire, Forever

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• Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

  Norman O. Brown

  Ideas, Progress, Unhappy

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

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• But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

  Naoki Higashida

  Stress, Grief, Ideas

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• Do you think…" He raised his eyebrows. "Do I think what?" "That Valentine might have drowned?" "Never believe the bad guy is dead until you see a body," said Simon. "That just leads to unhappiness and surprise ambushes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Valentine, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.800, Simon and Schuster

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• Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Elements, Function

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Band

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• The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

  Andre Maurois

  Life, Happiness, Men

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

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• Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.

  Michelle Gielan

  Media, Social, Comparison

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Envy, Causes

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Men, Intelligent

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• I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

  Francis Bacon

  Passion, Artist, Feelings

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• He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

  Graham Greene

  Happiness, Loyalty, Literature

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Unhappy, Ends

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moving, Ego, Mind

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Food, Science

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.278

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• A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Understanding, Alarms

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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