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• Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

  David Nicholls

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Unhappiness

• 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.

  Barry Hannah

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solve, Unhappiness

• There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it causes hunger and unhappiness.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Unhappiness, Hunger

• Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the finite.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unhappiness

• When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter’s from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

  Terri Apter

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Relationship, Unhappiness

• The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

  Franz Peter Schubert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, Unhappiness

• She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.

  Georgette Heyer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Heart, Unhappiness

• We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

  Willie Nelson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Purpose, Unhappiness

• Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Things, Unhappiness

• I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don’t like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

  Lynn Johnston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unhappiness

• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Convinced, Unhappiness

• A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

  Thomas Robert Malthus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Necessarily, Deserted, Implies, Unhappiness

• If you aren’t happy single, you won’t be happy taken. Happiness comes from within, not from men.

  Hugh Walpole

  Topics in Encouragement

  Tags in Unhappiness, Alone

• I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rich, Famous, Unhappiness, Unhappy

• Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fame, Unhappiness

• I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Least, World, Great, Think, Unhappiness, Personal

• When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

  Kathleen Norris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unhappiness

• All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

  Jean de La Bruyere

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unhappiness, Inability

• Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

  Mason Cooley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unhappiness, Little

• To be happy is only to have freed one’s soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unhappiness