Unhappiness Quotes - Page 29

• We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Believe

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• I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lonely, Loneliness, Love Is

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

  Gordon Allport

  Loyalty, Punishment, Bitter

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• My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Knowing, Ignorant, Suffering

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

  Michael Neill

  Happiness, Can Do

  Michael Neill (2006). “You Can Have What You Want”, p.9, Hay House, Inc

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• More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Dark, Opportunity, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Happiness, Happy, Worry

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• ...Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. - where grateful happiness is found through understanding that whatever your situation is, it could always be worse, but isn't... and the thought that things could always be better and the bitter unhappiness this creates is discarded!

  Frithjof Schuon

  Summer, Gratitude, Blessed

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• Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mistake, Waiting, Matter

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• There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suffering, May, Causes

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.177, Routledge

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• Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Happiness, Decision, Mind

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• Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Ifs

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• Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Immortality, Evidence, Humans

  Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA

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• Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, Men, Tiles

  Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.99, Grove Press

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• This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Happy, Divorce, Lunch

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• You can pretend everything's fine, but if there's an unhappiness or you're not having sex or you're not communicating or you're made to feel third best in the house and you don't address it and you just try to put on a nice face and a smile, that kind of aggression and anger is going to come out in some sinister way.

  Eli Roth

  Sex, Nice, House

  "Eli Roth Talks 'Knock Knock,' Parallels between Gore and the Destruction of Art, and More". Interview with Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. August 27, 2015.

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