Unhappiness Quotes - Page 5

• There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.

  Jon Ronson

  Interesting, Personality, Anxiety

  Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Opportunity, Emotional, Roots

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• I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there is nothing grand about their unhappiness. A man who is melancholy because lack of exercise has upset his liver always believes that it is the loss of God, or the menace of Bolshevism, or some such dignified cause that makes him sad. When you tell people that happiness is a simple matter, they get annoyed with you.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Loss, Exercise

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.440, Psychology Press

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• ...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, People, Anxiety

  "Is Poverty a Death Sentence?" by Sen. Bernie Sanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

  Michael J. Fox

  Acceptance, Expectations, Unhappy

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• Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

  Sophocles

  Safety, World, Safe

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.221, University of Chicago Press

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• Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Giving Up, Attitude, Don't Give Up

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• When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Unhappy, Problem

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.122, New World Library

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• This relaxation is the space in which happiness grows, and again I repeat: for no reason at all. It is not that you are happy because of something. You are simply happy. Happiness is your nature. Unhappiness is something nurtured, you have learned it. Every credit goes to you for all your misery, but for happiness, you cannot have any credit. It is natural. You were born happy. You were happy in your mother's womb.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Space, Simply Happy

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• A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Children, Sick, People

  Simon Soloveychik (2010). “Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?”, p.30, Aigul Aubanova

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• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 28, 2014

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• The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

  Mason Cooley

  Unhappy, Prisoner, Rounds

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• My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy. One watches both; happiness comes, one watches and does not become identified with it. One does not say, 'I am happy. Peace, it is wonderful.' One simply watches, one says, 'Yes, a white cloud passing.'

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Moving, White

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• One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

  David Ignatow

  Loneliness, Sadness, Winter

  David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.124, Wesleyan University Press

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• I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

  Stephen Fry

  People, Unhappy, Able

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.132, Soho Press

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• There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes you away from the unhappiness or torture of where you are and makes you feel less alienated-you believe there is a place you fit in somewhere else. The other is a sort of transcendent, spiritual feeling in the purity of music.

  Michael Stipe

  Spiritual, Believe, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we use power to cause someone else not to succeed so that we can succeed, it slows our vibratory frequency. It slows us down. When we slow down we experience unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Use, Succeed

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• a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job!
  And five nose running brats in love with Batman

  Gregory Corso

  Running, Jobs, Wife

  Gregory Corso (1960). “The Happy Birthday of Death”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Happiness, Stories, Said

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 12, 2002.

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• Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

  Robert Anthony

  Happiness, Always Trying, Denial

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.174, Morgan James Publishing

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• I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

  Martial

  Believe, Men, Please

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• O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Unhappy, Lord

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.232, Harvard University Press

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• A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

  Thomas Malthus

  Country, Emigration, Kind

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.51, Penguin UK

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• Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Fame

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