Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual
Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.
Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.
I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!
It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.
In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.
Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.
If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.
I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.
Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.