437 Quotes About Unhappiness

Humans are forever discontent—always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.

Strange how when people grow up they forget the things that make them happy.

SEEKING HUMANITY IS THE MEASURE OF ALL HAPPINESS AND SELF-SEEKING IS THE MEASURE OF ALL UNHAPPINESS

Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day.  There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over, when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under.

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

Unhappiness is best and often concealed with a smile; jealousy, with a compliment.

And when people are unhappy, they can never bring joy to anyone else. They become nothing but tenants in their own lives, with no possibility of moving anywhere bigger or more luxurious. They resign themselves to their three-rooms-and-a-kitchen under the eaves, and then escape into the pages of luxury magazines offering sensational apartments with incredible services that they will never be able to buy. They torment themselves by imagining the life they do not have.

Жити так, як я живу на сьогоднішній день, куди важче влітку, коли забагато денного світла і так мало темряви; коли всі гуляють, коли всі кричуще, настирливо щасливі. Це виснажує, людина погано почувається, якщо не приєднується до загального щастя.

Some of the worst things are done with the best intentions, Petra,” August said. “You shouldn’t have done this to me.