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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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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