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Unhappiness quotes

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“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“The more you know the more unhappy you are.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.” Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” - 1845

“As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.” Richard Branson, “Screw It, Let's Do It” - 2006

“People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“I am malicious because I am miserable.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“I shall be called discontented. I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Unhappiness does make people look stupid,—I am perfectly sure it does.” Anatole France, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard” - 1881

“Through not observing what is in the mind of another a man has seldom been seen to be unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” - 1921

“There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“I fear those big words . . . which make us so unhappy.” James Joyce, “Ulysses” - 1922

“The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins—of happiness and unhappiness.” Virginia Woolf, “Jacob's Room” - 1922

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