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Unhappiness Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
- The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each…
- If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what…
- Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.
- What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a…
- Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
- 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,…
- Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar,…
- Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness
More Unhappiness Quotes
- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Thomas Carlyle
- In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're… — Leslie Caron