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Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. — Elsa Maxwell

It's an illusion to believe that you can be happy when no one else is. Or that other people will not be affected by your unhappiness. — John Brockman

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution. — Elizabeth I

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

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success. — Francoise Sagan

Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world. — Frederick Lenz

You must remember, unhappiness can consume you entirely, without you realizing. Happiness is a choice. — Viola Shipman

The only unhappiness is not to love God. — Thomas Merton

Humans are forever discontent - always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more your entertain unhappiness! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness. — Andrew Sullivan

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. — Patti Page

Dick walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, and wanting to drink the rain that touched her cheek. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Unhappiness loves company. Unhappiness can't stand silence - especially not the uneasy silence that settles in when it is all alone. — Herman Koch

Sometimes the best decisions were the ones with the most short-term unhappiness — Sierra Simone

Debt is great source of inner unhappiness. — Debasish Mridha

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design. — Isaac Mizrahi

The pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness. — Dan Harris

Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now. — Susan Meissner

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water. — Austin O'Malley

If my joy hung in the balance of having everything I wanted, I would always wrestle with unhappiness. There — Tessa Afshar

The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell. — Stuart Rothenberg

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness! — Iris Murdoch

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness. — Leo Tolstoy

When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others' own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent. — David W. Earle

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality. — Richard Rodriguez

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost. — Leo Buscaglia

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. — Timothy Ferriss

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

He was not trying to buy happiness, but simply an absence of unhappiness. — Paul Auster

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we're depriving them of happiness as adults? — Lori Gottlieb

Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing. — Bertolt Brecht

Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be — Creflo A. Dollar

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you — Eckhart Tolle

Ambition is the death of joy. — Marty Rubin

We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness. — Sharon Gannon

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? — Logan Pearsall Smith

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not. — Euripides

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. — Graham Greene

He disapproved of the metaphor: he wanted to tell her that one shouldn't compare one's personal unhappiness to the most horrible crime in history. — Brian Morton

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth. — Judith Wright

Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty; richness with unhappiness is not a real richness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our thoughts have prepared for us the
happiness or unhappiness we experience. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce. — Geraldine Brooks

That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular. — Nirmala Srivastava

Do not mistake equilibrium with unhappiness, and happiness with fulfillment. — Unknown

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at. — Martha Gellhorn

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. - BUDDHA — Gay Hendricks

I learned to smile, avoiding happiness advice. — Brian Spellman

now I know the power of maya: that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness. Oh — Devdutt Pattanaik

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- Seneca — Seneca.

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept. — Wei Wu Wei

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception — Marcus Aurelius

Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness. — Aesop

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness. — Dov Davidoff

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. — Georges Simenon

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The unknown is too vast to live in known unhappiness. — Russell Eric Dobda

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Haunted by the unhappiness that appeared like an ugly creature to live in their home — Rohinton Mistry

that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness — Devdutt Pattanaik

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. — Brigitte Bardot

To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy. — Ogwo David Emenike

The brightest sun of the art mostly rises on the dark horizons of the deep unhappiness. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories. — Jed Rubenfeld

Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness. — Jason Mraz

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz

Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. — Salman Rushdie

Just a smile from the right person can delete fear, cancel unhappiness, and even dissolve physical pain. — Doug "Ten" Rose

Youth hates age, age loves youth. This means we are born for unhappiness. This means we will keep buying outfits. — Kate Tempest

There was no room for unhappiness when squeezed between two sets of washboard abs.
New life motto, right there. — Cora Carmack

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel. — David Lloyd-Jones

He understands that all beings have the power to free themselves from ignorance and unhappiness, but that they don't know it. How — Matthieu Ricard

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world. — Thomas Szasz

It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality. — Dale Carnegie

If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it — Democritus

You will never can find happiness if you're a reason for someone's unhappiness. — Debasish Mridha

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

I hate this type of unearned unhappiness. — William Styron

Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself. — Ivan Panin

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat. — William Hartston

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. — Eckhart Tolle

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

We will struggle with self-doubt, distractions, addictions, unhappiness and dissatisfaction until we surrender and commit to our God-given calling. — Shannon Tanner

You will not able to find peace if you are the source of unhappiness for others. — Debasish Mridha

It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask. — Rita Zoey Chin

She smiled... and let loose a happy scream that seemed to release decades of insecurity, unhappiness, obsessiveness and worry. — Viola Shipman

In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly. — Ellis Peters

Unhappiness was my god. — Arthur Rimbaud

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth — Carole Glickfeld

My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one's real Self) does. — Dada Bhagwan

I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt. — Elizabeth Taylor

I was born into chaos. I didn't know what peace felt like. — Shannon A. Thompson

How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life. — Francis Frangipane

What we do to others will come back to us. You can't expect to be happy by causing unhappiness to others. — Sharon Gannon

Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage. — Madeleine L'Engle

Now I know the reason for this chronic unhappiness spread all over the world: we all feel we are special. — Daya Kudari