The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.
. . . morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.
If you're unhappy with the way you played, what's the point?
Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.
the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.
Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
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.
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.
No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual
The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.