Quotes on Being Unhappy

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.