Quotes about Unhappiness

One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.

Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us.

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

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

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.

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

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

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

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.

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

The truth is that to become a Christian is to become unhappy for this life. The situation is this: the more thou hast to do with God, and the more He loves thee, the more wilt thou become, humanly speaking, unhappy for this life, the more thou wilt have to suffer in this life.