Being unhappy Quote by Norman O. Brown

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

— Shirley Hazzard

Some of us are seeking happiness where it is and as a result are becoming happier. And others are seeking it blindly in the…

— Lester Levenson

I do believe that fundamental to any real hope is that we do need to reconstitute what has been generally handed out as the…

— Arundhati Roy

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All…

— Ramana Maharshi

A lot of people end up unhappy because they seek happiness in others instead of being happy with themselves.

— Rashida Rowe

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

— Robert Breault

Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.

— Justin Kan

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

— Don Herold

“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“The you is programmed for unhappiness because it is programmed to seek that which can never bring true happiness. It goes after more and…

— Gina Lake

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky