And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are happy, O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full o...
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
Wanna know the fastest way to unhappiness? Spend your time judging other people's reasons for happiness! That way, you'll quickly lose your own! The next time you look back at yourself (when you've ta...
Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.
An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrep...
Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.
Most of the time reason for unhappiness is, desiring for the things which are far from our expectations.
There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure.
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
When I was in junior high, I used to think I would turn out to be one of the guys, and boys would say, 'Oh, you're so great,' but they wouldn't date me. I thought I wasn't pretty enough. But then I go...
But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he to...
Emma still had a joyless look, and, habitually, at the corners of her mouth, she had that tightness that crumples the faces of old maids and bankrupts.
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.
Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.