#unhappiness

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ↗

— Don Herold

#killing #knowing #not knowing #ourselves #unhappiness

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. ↗

— Graham Greene

#feel #felt #loyalty #really #sense

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. ↗

— Graham Greene

#child #dark #end #just #might

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#greatest #greatest happiness #happiness #know #source

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#feel #happiness #life #long #matter

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#come #group #out #routines #therapy

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ↗

— George Santayana

#appreciate #bliss #domestic #patience #prefer

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #people #philosophy #unhappiness #change

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#dissatisfaction #drama-queen #self-delusion #unhappiness #love

She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy she had developed for communication with a dead husband was not necessary, she cast about for some new unhappiness. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#unhappiness #change