Adversity Quote by Anonymous

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

— Victor Hugo

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.

— Seneca the Elder

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

— Anonymous

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

— David Hume

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

— Epictetus

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

— Marcus Aurelius

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more…

— Andre Gide

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

— Fay Weldon

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must…

— Seneca the Elder

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others…

— Ayn Rand