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“The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud.”

Ifs Should Firsts Real Feelings Remember Felt One Day Clouds Be Good God Love Unhappiness Orphanage

Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.”

“When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.”

Fall Heaven Morning Flower Fit Sorrow Green Rose Clouds Hills Unhappiness Melancholy April Weeping Shrouds Green Hills

Author:John Keats

“Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!”

Sadness Midst Unhappiness Piercings Ordinariness Sadness Of Life

Book:A Word Child

Source: A Word Child

“Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.”

Silent Unhappiness Melancholy

Book:The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume

Source: The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume

“The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.”

People Sadness Sorrow Demand Active Boundaries Unhappiness Horizon Thick Vague Crowded Dense Happy People Doings Nomad Landmarks No Boundaries

Book:Some Can Whistle

Source: Some Can Whistle

“All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.”

Littles Today Artist Expected Unhappiness Fashionable

Book:The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

“Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.”

Eye Style Unhappiness Modernity Epoch

Book:Towards a New Architecture

Source: Towards a New Architecture

“What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.”

Knows Men Unhappy Unhappiness Deprived

Author:Jacques Maritain

“What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.”

Knows Persons Determine Unhappiness Impotence

Author:Robert M. Lindner

“I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.”

Thinking Doe Causes Worry One Thing Anxiety Unhappiness Anxiety And Worry

Author:Derek Bok

“So what is happiness? I am sure this question will be asked through the ages. And I doubt there is one answer for all people. Like heaven and hell, one person's happiness can be another person's unhappiness, which is why I'm not attempting to tell you what to do to find your happiness. I have enough trouble finding and hanging onto my own true happiness.”

People Persons Enough Age Happiness Heaven My Own Answers Hell Doubt Trouble Findings Unhappiness Attempting True Happiness Heaven And Hell What Is Happiness

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.”

People Nature Ignorance Dues Unhappiness

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.”

People World Want Wells Seems Found Work Results Amount Periods Dues Unhappy Unhappiness Nerves True Happiness Refreshing Happy People Unhappy People

Author:Lin Yutang

“I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.”

People Inspirational Ends Feelings Ten Track Nine Compare Comparison Unhappiness Inadequate

Author:Jack Canfield

“In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.”

States Home Happiness Chance One Thing Anxiety Opposites Block Unhappiness Life Happiness Home Life

Author:Ariel Gore

“Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.”

Thinking Knows Persons Sometimes Helping Happiness Down And Unhappiness Qualified Qualifications

Author:Alastair Campbell

“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.”

Faces Thirty Relief Maps Unhappiness American Woman Bewildered

Book:The Crack-up

Source: The Crack-up

“I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.”

People Thinking Way Want Mass Unhappiness Hung

Author:Monica Ali

“When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.”

People Ifs Thinking Seems Earth Comedy Involved Solve Cease Useless Damn Unhappiness Agony Toil Damn Things

Author:Barry Hannah

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