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.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

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

All sorrow, hardship, difficulty, struggle, pain, unhappiness, and ultimately death itself can be traced to rebellion against God's love for us.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.

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.