Unhappiness Quotes
775 quotes by 531 authors
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
— Aesop
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
— Edward de Bono
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I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything…
— Jo Brand
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
— Dorothea Brande
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the…
— Albert Camus
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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…
— Thomas Carlyle
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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
— Leslie Caron
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Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
— James Allen
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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
— Agatha Christie
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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…
— Amy Chua
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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…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
— Marcus Aurelius
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What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
— William Shenstone
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It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
— Bertrand Russell
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