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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. -- Graham Greene
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. -- Don Herold
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. -- Edward de Bono
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. -- Samuel Beckett
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. -- Baruch Spinoza
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. -- Martha Washington
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. -- Dennis Prager
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. -- Samuel Beckett
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. -- George Santayana
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. -- Groucho Marx
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. -- Eckhart Tolle
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. -- Dorothea Brande
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. -- Simone Weil
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. -- Abraham Maslow
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. -- Douglas Coupland
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. -- Thomas Carlyle
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. -- Anthony de Mello
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. -- Bertrand Russell
The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer. -- Ajahn Chah
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. -- Joseph Roux
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. -- Alexandre Dumas
Unhappiness was my god. -- Arthur Rimbaud
Unhappiness does make people look stupid. -- Anatole France
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. -- Lauren Oliver
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. -- Tom Robbins
Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows. -- Adrian Rogers
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures. -- Mason Cooley
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly. -- Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories. -- Jed Rubenfeld
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears? -- Jeanette Winterson
Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with. -- Alain de Botton
Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help. -- Hugh Laurie
Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. -- Sebastian Horsley
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier. -- Sam Levenson
Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. -- Paul Bourget
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it. -- Erica Jong
Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence. -- Ken Wilber
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. -- Euripides
Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. -- Nick Hornby
Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention. -- Max Lucado
Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are. -- Joyce Meyer
There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears. -- Shannon Hale
When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now. -- Eckhart Tolle
The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around. -- Rajneesh
Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be -- Creflo A. Dollar
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
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. -- Graham Greene
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom. -- Lauren Oliver
Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it? -- Donald L. Hicks
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
A good cry can be wonderful sometimes, and sadness is nothing more than love announced. Sadness and Unhappiness are not the same thing, and it is good to remember that. And there is this: sadness cleanses the heart. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating. -- Bella Pollen
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Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. -- James Allen
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. -- Jason Mraz
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy. -- Joan Rivers
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. -- Graham Greene
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. -- Thomas Malthus
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness. -- Emile Durkheim
Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter. -- Terri Apter
I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate. -- Jack Canfield
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. -- Virginia Postrel
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line? -- Amy Chua
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. -- Joseph Roux
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. -- James E. Faust
I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something. -- Michael Haneke
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness. -- Umberto Eco
I don't think unhappiness is fated. -- Michelle Moran
My unhappiness protects me from life. -- Orhan Pamuk
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. -- Tim Ferriss
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. -- Stephen R. Covey
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception -- Marcus Aurelius
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. -- Stephen R. Covey
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. -- Leo Tolstoy
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. -- Brigitte Bardot
Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality. -- Richard Rodriguez
Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness. -- Sigmund Freud
Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time. -- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
When you compromise your life, you compromise unhappiness. -- Dee Dee Artner
Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness. -- Marie Antoinette
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. -- Don Marquis
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness. -- Andrew Sullivan
Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid -- Leo Tolstoy
The only unhappiness is not to love God. -- Thomas Merton
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. -- Stendhal
The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside. -- Jim Rohn
We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness. -- Sharon Gannon
Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness. -- Jason Mraz
...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness. -- Jean Rhys
All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering -- Stefan Molyneux
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness. -- Gautama Buddha
The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness. -- Dov Davidoff
But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it! -- Simone Berteaut
Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness. -- Mason Cooley
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness? -- Sophocles
The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness. -- Allan Lokos
Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness. -- Bertrand Russell
Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness -- Novala Takemoto
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim. -- William Shenstone
The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness. -- Lulu
If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful -- Dennis Prager
Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it. -- Mason Cooley
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. -- Georges Simenon
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The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness -- Bangambiki Habyarimana

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