Unhappiness Quotes

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be.
William

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact

Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently
Kathleen

The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak
Ralph Charell

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Red Skelton

A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it
John Galsworthy







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