#unhappiness

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#unhappiness #universe

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

— Don Herold

#killing #knowing #not knowing #ourselves #unhappiness

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. ↗

— Democritus

#doing #injustice #suffer #thou #thyself

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#comes #inability #our #unhappiness

It's a hard life if you don't weaken. ↗

— Stephen King

#hard-life #hardships #life #life-lessons #steadfastness

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#greatest #greatest happiness #happiness #know #source

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? ↗

— Philip Larkin

#i #i think #most #people #popularity

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#music #unhappiness #war #weapon

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#bringing #capable #causing #children #considerably

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#amount #been #deeply #even #given