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1. "The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness."
Author: Allan Lokos
2. "She was telling me that I had a life of disappointment before me if I continued to love him as I did. A love that is too strong can turn poisonous and bring great unhappiness. And then, what is the remedy? Can you unlearn your heart's desire? Can you stop loving someone? Easier to drown yourself; easier to take the lover's leap."
Author: Alma Katsu
3. "Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators."
Author: Ann Patchett
4. "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings."
Author: Anton Chekhov
5. "The sole case of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room"
Author: Blaise Pascal
6. "Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
Author: Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
7. "To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another person's unhappiness. Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held."
Author: Chica Umino
8. "All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes."
Author: CLAMP
9. "A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive."
Author: Cyril Connolly
10. "Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it."
Author: Don Herold
11. "We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it."
Author: Dorianne Laux
12. "Just a smile from the right person can delete fear, cancel unhappiness, and even dissolve physical pain."
Author: Doug Ten Rose
13. "All your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more present, more conscious, you would soon find yourself with a similar set of problems or causes of suffering, like a shadow that follows you wherever you go. Ultimately,"
Author: Eckhart Tolle
14. "Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than with others. Meanwhile he blamed his own idleness for it, he ended by being ashamed of it."
Author: Émile Zola
15. "Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body."
Author: Françoise Sagan
16. "These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness"
Author: Frank Herbert
17. "It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated..."
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. "It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
Author: George Santayana
19. "Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."
Author: Georges Simenon
20. "As the ate afternoon sun shone in Shaw's face and a soft flower-scented wind cooled him, his unhappiness turned to a detachment that was not at all unpleasant. He was utterly alone in the world. This knowledge thrilled him."
Author: Gore Vidal
21. "The unhappiness of a fine brain that seeks employment."
Author: H.G. Wells
22. "Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves."
Author: Harper Lee
23. "Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness is a story."
Author: Haruki Murakami
24. "My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like hers, a life of promiscuity, rootlessness, and substance abuse, resentment and fear tend to replace all reasonable and proper emotions, and the world becomes your enemy."
Author: J. Robert Lennon
25. "Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness."
Author: James E. Faust
26. "All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."
Author: Jean De La Bruyere
27. "As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow."
Author: Joseph Butler
28. "Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth."
Author: Judith Wright
29. "For some people, particularly women, marriage-even an unhappy one such as this-is an escape from even greater unhappiness."
Author: Khaled Hosseini
30. "Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love."
Author: Laura Esquivel
31. "Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom."
Author: Lauren Oliver
32. "They haven't an idea what happiness is; they don't know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no life at all"
Author: Leo Tolstoy
33. "Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."
Author: Marcel Proust
34. "Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty; richness with unhappiness is not a real richness!"
Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan
35. "Democritus and Heraclitus were two philosophers, of whom the first, finding the condition of man vain and ridiculous, never went out in public but with a mocking and laughing face; whereas Heraclitus, having pity and compassion on this same condition of ours, wore a face perpetually sad, and eyes filled with tears. I prefer the first humor; not because it is pleasanter to laugh than to weep, but because it is more disdainful, and condemns us more than the other; and it seems to me that we can never be despised as much as we deserve. Pity and commiseration are mingled with some esteem for the thing we pity; the things we laugh at we consider worthless. I do not think there is as much unhappiness in us as vanity, nor as much malice as stupidity. We are not so full of evil as of inanity; we are not as wretched as we are worthless."
Author: Michel De Montaigne
36. "To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can´t have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren´t satisfied - before working some more."
Author: Mitch Albom
37. "The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life"
Author: Mohammed Naseehu Ali
38. "I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think."
Author: Monica Ali
39. "Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends, it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was reciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out."
Author: Nick Hornby
40. "Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier."
Author: Nick Hornby
41. "All of us are in the manufacturing industry - manufacturing either our own happiness or unhappiness."
Author: Ogwo David Emenike
42. "Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.Everything passes."
Author: Osamu Dazai
43. "Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified."
Author: Polly Toynbee
44. "Life is from zero to one, sorrow to pain and love to happiness, passing all along with smile on face despite grief and unhappiness, deep below lies the quenching heart, which is flowing with energy and bloody rain."
Author: Santosh Kalwar
45. "Moments of sadness, grief, unhappiness and lack of motivation are results of stepping back, just move on and challenge your limits, you will do it."
Author: Santosh Kalwar
46. "Ralston stiffened at the reference to the stupid wager that caused so much pain and unhappiness. He ignored Oxford's proffered hand, and instead met the baron's concerned gaze, and said, "Keep the money. I have her. She's all I want."
Author: Sarah MacLean
47. "But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you're uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch."
Author: Sarah Vowell
48. "Caro was coming round to the fact of unhappiness: to a realization that Dora created unhappiness and the she was bound to Dora."
Author: Shirley Hazzard
49. "It's always something here - if there isn't a riot, then someone's usually trying to escape. The wasted effort helps me see the positives of imprisonment. Unlike those pulling their hair out in good society, here we don't have to feel ashamed of our day-to-day unhappiness. Here we have someone visible to blame - someone wearing shiny boots. That's why, on consideration, freedom leaves me cold. Because out there in the real world, freedom means you have to admit authorship, even when your story turns out to be a real stinker."
Author: Steve Toltz
50. "We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it."
Author: Willie Nelson
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