Unhappiness Quotes

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.

~ Margaret Atwood

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?

~ Anton Chekhov

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

~ P.d. James

Humans are forever discontent—always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Yet I had become very attached to George Roc. I liked him, not for the joy of playing with him, not for some talent that made him stand out from the rest, not even for his kindness: above all, I liked him because he was always sad and because the things he told me caused me a degree of pain.....George Roc was the first being that I'd met who saw and felt himself unhappy.

~ Joseph Zobel

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.

~ Dorothy Parker

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

~ A.s. Neill

The researchers summarized: A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.. Long ago, Buddhists reached much the same conclusion.

~ David Michie

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy,maybe you can grasp it.

~ Dick Allen

Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness.

~ Leonard Gardner

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

~ Osamu Dazai

To sacrifice one's unhappiness for a good cause is something I fervently believe in.

~ Marty Rubin

Happiness requires the ultimate sacrifice: to give up one's unhappiness.

~ Marty Rubin

If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Your heart is who you are. It’s the one and only thing throughout the whole world, which will never lie to you. From the very first moment you start to be honest with it, and you start to act on your dreams in life, your heart will stop making you unhappy.

~ Jellis Vaes

After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to bear. Each time she opened her eyes, she'd quickly shut them. And wish that she had woken up for the very last time.

~ Lisi Harrison

They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

~ Tom Robbins

The air in my home is heavy with my mom's unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And I hate it. I can be up in my room when she's in the kitchen below and I feel her despair seeping up through the floorboards. You can hear her banging pots and pans or cursing the vacuum cleaner

~ Laura Buzo

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.

~ Paulo Coelho

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It seems to me that those who claim to be 'true' and 'bible believing' Christians and yet spend all their time and energy spreading unhappiness and hatred for others - and are themselves consumed by it - are by the very definition of the term - false prophets.

~ Christina Engela

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

The whole world is festering with unhappy souls: The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles' Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch; and I don't like anybody very much!

~ Sheldon Harnick

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

~ Sebastian Horsley

Most of the times reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.

~ Sriveena Dhagavkar

Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.

~ Sriveena Dhagavkar

Most of the time reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.

~ Sriveena Dhagavkar

…much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With a mental life that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappiness.

~ Sigmund Freud

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

~ Alain De Botton

If you realize that other people put you down because of their own insecurities, unhappiness and jealousy, you understand that there's no need to be offended. Because it's not really about you, but about them.

~ Jeanette Coron

Sometimes it didn't seem possible that I could be so unhappy, considering how much I had compared to other kids my age, and, believe me, I understood how extremely lucky I was. Sometimes things didn't add up.

~ Sharon Leach

I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never discovered it and was carried away by the allurements of empty, un-rewarding passions. I was tempered in their flames and came out cold and hard as steel, but I'd lost forever that fire of noble endeavour, that finest flower of life. How many time since then have I been an axe in the hands of fate? Like an engine of execution, I've descended on the heads of the condemned, often without malice, but always without pity. My love has brought no one happiness, for I've never sacrificed a thing for those I've loved. I've loved for myself, for my own pleasure, I've only tried to satisfy a strange inner need. I've fed on their feelings, love, joys and sufferings, and always wanted more. I'm like a starving man who falls asleep exhausted and sees rich food and sparkling wines before him. He rapturously falls on these phantom gifts of the imagination and feels better, but the moment he wakes up his dream disappears and he's left more hungry and desperate than before.

~ Mikhail Lermontov

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I’m over it.

~ Lauren Dane

Misery can only be quelled but never cured.

~ Nina -

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

~ T.c. Boyle

There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own imprudence, by the reckless Salina pride; and now, just at the moment when her memories had come alive again after so many years, she found herself even without the solace of being able to blame her own unhappiness on others, a solace which is the last protective device of the desperate.

~ Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own.

~ Javier Marías