Quotes with unhappiness

  • What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

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  • Hans Selye Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • Baruch Spinoza All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Casey Stengel All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Don Marquis Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Marcel Proust Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Graham Greene He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Martha Washington I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt 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.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Bertrand Russell If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Democritus If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
    Democritus
    Greek scientist, astronomist and philosopher (460 - 380)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Sam Levenson Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Joan Rivers My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ''yes,'' all's well. That is enough.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Beckett Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Lao-Tzu Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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