Quotes on Unhappy

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday I'll where problems end Where every piece of mail is from a friend Where the children are sweet and already grown . . . . Most unhappy people . . . put happiness on "law away" And struggle through a blue today . . . . Life's most important revelation Is that the journey means more than the destination . . .

True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we don’t think that’s completely real, do we?…Longing is true. It may be that there’s no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. It’s part of our reality.

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

The path to love is our spiritual destiny.

Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.