Unhappiness Quotes

775 quotes by 531 authors

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. — Brigitte Bardot
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. — Samuel Beckett
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. — Aesop
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. — Edward de Bono
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
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. — Dorothea Brande
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. — Jean de la Bruyere
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
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
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
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
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. — James Allen
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
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
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
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception — Marcus Aurelius
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim. — William Shenstone
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
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. — Bertrand Russell

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