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“The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.” Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
“Unhappiness does make people look stupid,—I am perfectly sure it does.” Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins—of happiness and unhappiness.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“The more you know the more unhappy you are.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.” Franz Kafka, The Diaries
“There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“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
“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
“He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for.” Albert Camus, The Stranger
“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
“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
“They're fretting simply because they won't let themselves go. And I know what I'm talking about. ” Albert Camus, The Plague
“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“I fear those big words . . . which make us so unhappy.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“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
“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
“People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“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
“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I am malicious because I am miserable.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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