437 Quotes About Unhappiness

Misery can only be quelled but never cured.

The researchers summarized: "A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.". Long ago, Buddhists reached much the same conclusion.

She looked as if she were about to burst into tears, but she was wonderful at catching the ball of her own mood in mid-air.

Remembering what a disagreeable experience madness had been, she averted her thoughts with haste.

I have often said the soul cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in a room. (Page 32)

The moral of the story is that seeking truth, rather than fear of pain or the desire for happiness, is the correct orientation toward inner work, since seeking happiness makes you its prisoner just as surely as does pain.

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

Instead of arguing whether happiness gives one success or success makes one happy, we may agree that happiness and success are interconnected with each other and are the cause and effect of each other. Similarly, failure and unhappiness are also cause and effect of each other.

What he had was what he pretended.