#unhappiness

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. ↗

— James Allen

#harmony #mental #unhappiness

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#fame #had #me #much #unhappiness

They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#death-and-dying #death-of-a-loved-one #sorrow #unhappiness #death

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#greatest #greatest happiness #happiness #know #source

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#deserted #emigration #great #implies #kind

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#content #friends #husband #i #laughter

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#music #unhappiness #war #weapon

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#happiness #hardly #make #other #possible

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#create #help #ones #our #own

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

— George Santayana

#appreciate #bliss #domestic #patience #prefer