#unhappiness

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

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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ↗

— Don Marquis

#between #interval #periods #unhappiness

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society. ↗

— Colin Powell

#doing #now #occupy #occupy wall street #others

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. ↗

— Euripedes

#change #happiness #heart #more #pang

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

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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#does #enables #humor #little #move

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 told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#life #pain #suffering #unhappiness #beauty

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#freed #happy #only #soul #unhappiness

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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