Easier Quote by Graham Greene

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even…

— Graham Greene

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

— David Nicholls

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

— Anonymous

“I think you're scared of being happy, Emma. I think you think that the natural way of things is for your life to be…

— David Nicholls

“Em, we've known each other five or six years now, but two years properly, as, you know, 'friends', which isn't that long but I…

— David Nicholls

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because…

— David Nicholls

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

— Graham Greene

“...it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.”

— Graham Greene

“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

— Monica Ali

More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching…

— Merrill Markoe

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the [external] situation but your thoughts about it.”

— Robert S. Rosenthal