“Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.” PeopleKnowsFeelsLittlesIdeasPainHappinessSufferingBreakBuddhismUnhappyNo Idea Author:Frederick Lenz
“We're going to have plenty of work to do, but it's going to be a lot easier than here. There'll be no sorrow, no sickness, no pain, no weariness, no death, no more tears, no more crying. That's certainly going to make things easier. We're going to have rest in Heaven compared to what we've had in this life, but we're also going to have something to do. We'd eventually be unhappy if we didn't!” IfsPainHeavenCryTearsEasierSorrowUnhappyPlentyThis LifeSicknessHeavenlyWearinessNo Pain Author:David Berg
“Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenRealReasonPainPastFacesMemoriesPleasureClearChildhoodVictoryComfortExcuseUnhappyTalesFormerWorriedNo ReasonUsualTrustedHappy Memories Author:Lillian Hellman
“When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.” WorldWellsPersonsPainLove IsAliveMissingUnhappyBelovedSaltFlavorOne LoveSharpness Book:Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935 Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935
“Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.” ShouldSchoolPainJoyChurchPleaseCharityUnhappyNecksSundayBenevolenceYokeSunday School Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people.” PeopleIfsWayWantWritingPainNightChoicesFrontsBedGratefulListsUnhappyAgonyIndulgeTunnelsExitHappy PeopleUnhappy People Author:Jim Carrey
“Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.” PersonsSelfPainSufferingResponsibleUnhappyHappy PersonSelf InflictedUnhappy Person Author:James Dillehay