Doe Quote by Paulo Coelho

The absence of happiness doesn't mean unhappiness.

— Praveen Sighal

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

— Aristotle

Freedom does not mean license.

— Erich Fromm

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about…

— Paulo Coelho

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

— Bertrand Russell

My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face.…

— J. Robert Lennon

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion…

— Dorianne Laux

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“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

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

— Michael Neill

“Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.”

— Richard Rodriguez

“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?”

— Rachel Abbott