Unhappiness Quotes

“We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.”
― Donald Knuth

“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms

“We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Like philanthropy, charity is the deceptive art of making others happy, or less unhappy, in order to make yourself happy, or happier.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Happiness makes us think that life is worth living, whereas depression makes us think that life is worth leaving.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people are happily single. Some are unhappily married.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Other people's happiness is the single most annoying thing to bitter people.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Men are evil and they deserve to be unhappy.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“How is it possible to act so harshly after having been so unhappy? I'd always believed misfortune nudges open the soul, that remembering the pains we ourselves endured, our heart grows more sensitive to the suffering of others. I was wrong. Unhappiness hardens people, dulling them to their own pain; one grows accustomed to be unmoved by that of others, to remain impassive in the face of attack and therefore indifferent to blows that strike others.”
― Marquis de Sade, Aline and Valcour, or, the Philosophical Novel, Vol. III

“Sometimes an unhappy comedian spreads joy to the world, makes people burst into laughter because one has to create a paradise of happiness around him in order to hide his own unhappiness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“...she had gone too far into the unhappiness of the world to start all over again.”
― Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

“The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are all capable of laughing at what is meant or expected to make us unhappy or angry.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If I could pack my unhappiness into snowballs, I would throw them at these people.”
― Ava Homa, Daughters of Smoke and Fire

“It’s such a pointless unhappiness. I am so tired of it. Sounds odd, doesn’t it? But I am so tired of being unhappy”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“for we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that we feel at once a sort of loathing for real life, and so cannot bear to be reminded of it. Why, we have come almost to looking upon real life as an effort, almost as hard work, and we are all privately agreed that it is better in books.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“That makes me really sad."
"I am sad," Merritt said. "I'm a sad person who does sad things. And I am deadly, deadly tired of my unhappiness.”
― Emily M. Danforth

“I think that starving for a sweet nectar you can’t drink — being unable to try — is because you can’t love yourself.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“Money can do that if you let it--if you close your eyes and enter its dream, the one where you are well dressed, fit, successful, in love with exactly the right person. The gym I used to belong to cost $30 a month, but sound judgment gets lost so easily in unhappiness: the new price seemed justifiable because I would have paid almost any price to become a new person.”
― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

“Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We do not become happy. We stop being unhappy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“More than the homeless, we have, not only money and possessions, but also potential ‘sources’ of things such as worry and unhappiness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Unhappiness is a mild mental illness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“[Mesnilgrand] had the gift of sarcasm. But that was not the only gift that almighty God had given him. While character was the dominant force in his constitution, wit occupied the second place and was a real strength for him to use against others. There is no doubt that if the Chevalier de Mesnilgrand had been a fortunate man, he would have been a great wit; but as an unfortunate, he had the opinions of a desperate man, and when he was in high spirits, which was rare, there was something desperate about him; and nothing will shatter the kaleidoscope of wit more readily, preventing it from twisting and casting ever new splendors, than a fixed, steady unhappiness.”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques - édition enrichie

“...the frantic desire for the Almost Real arises only as a neurotic reaction to the vacuum of memories; the Absolute Fake is offspring of the unhappy awareness of a present without depth.”
― Umberto Eco, Travels In Hyperreality

“He said, 'You don't have to make conversation with me.'
'My husband says that I am too silent.'
'Silence is not a bad thing.'
'It is when you are unhappy.”
― Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case

“You think being unhappy has particular choreography?”
― Clare Beams, The Illness Lesson