Top 647 Unhappiness Quotes & Sayings

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

You are all adding to each other's unhappiness; you are all helping each other to be more unhappy. Every single man has many people behind him making him unhappy. If an understanding of compassion is there, then you will change all the ways that you cause unhappiness in others. And if you can bring happiness to someone's life, you will find a way to do it.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

I don't think unhappiness is fated.

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

There is too much unhappiness in football, no?

The only unhappiness is not to love God.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Unhappiness isn't just the result of genetics or past trauma or career trouble. I think that some of our unhappiness is simply due to the burden of all our things.

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.

Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction the we alone suffer to the point of unbearable intensity. Unhappiness is always to feel oneself imprisoned in one's own skin, in one's own brain.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don't add to their unhappiness.

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

What is wrong with enjoying yourself? What is wrong in being happy? If there is anything wrong it is always in your unhappiness, because an unhappy person creates ripples of unhappiness all around him. Be happy!

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

Unhappiness was my god.

When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.

We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

Everybody has unhappiness.

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it!

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.

When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.

The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

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.

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

Remember one thing: the one who brings unhappiness to others in the end becomes unhappy himself, and the one who brings happiness to others in the end reaches to the heights of happiness. That's why I am saying that someone who tries to give happiness develops the center of happiness inside himself, and someone who tries to bring unhappiness to others develops the center of unhappiness inside himself.

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.