Quotes about Unhappiness
So long as you don't feel life's paltry, and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
— DH Lawrence
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
— Milan Kundera
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
— Milan Kundera
The mother instinct is something of which I am completely devoid. I explain it like this to myself: life is a vale of tears and all human beings are miserable creatures, so I cannot take the responsibility for bringing yet another unhappy creature into the world.
— Etty Hillesum
Why am I unhappy? The question carries with it the virus that will destroy everything.
— Paulo Coelho
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only unhappiness is not to love God.
— Thomas Merton
Not only were the couples unhappy from their respective fights, they are now even more unhappy as a result of comparing themselves with the other couple!
— Dennis Prager
Their own destiny is a far-off thing to them ... One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look on at the game with indifference.
— Victor Hugo
To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.
— Oscar Wilde
The very word mercy is derived from the Latin miserum cor, a sorrowful heart. Mercy is, therefore, a compassionate understanding of another's unhappiness.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.
— Graham Greene