Top 66 Unhappiness Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Unhappiness Quotes from famous people such as Logan Pearsall Smith, Hedy Lamarr, Michaela Coel, Timothy Noah, Cornelia Parker, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhap

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they’ve taken away?
Logan Pearsall Smith
I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
Hedy Lamarr
I was very unhappy at one point and dealt with my unhappiness by hitting people.
Michaela Coel
Inequality doesn’t create unhappiness.
Timothy Noah
At times, I’ve been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.
Cornelia Parker
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
Brigitte Bardot
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Georges Simenon
I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can’t get that.
James Gray
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.
Alastair Campbell
If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don’t like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.
Lynn Johnston
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
Francois Rabelais
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Thomas Huxley
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
Casey Stengel
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
Elsa Maxwell
I’m lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don’t need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That’s an enormous privilege. That’s the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.
Michael Haneke
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George Santayana
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel Beckett
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.
Lucy Larcom
Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
Hanya Yanagihara
Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.
Justin Kan
The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.
Sue Townsend
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
Of all the unhappiness I went through, you must know I wouldn’t live a moment of my life differently for what I have now. Would I do it all again? I wouldn’t want to, but if it got me to the same place, yeah, I’d do it. Because I realize now that God would not give more than I could handle.
Nell Carter
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.
Joseph Butler
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
Euripides
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
Jason Mraz
I realised that to compare your insides with other people’s outsides leads to unhappiness.
Marcus Brigstocke
People – running from unhappiness, hiding in power – are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
Richard Avedon
A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimula

A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
Andrei Tarkovsky
I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people’s lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.
Jo Brand
Toledo is better than exciting, it’s happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you’re baseball team is the Mud Hens.
P. J. O’Rourke
There is no denying that unhappiness – even violence – exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne out of cruelty. And part of that six percent global divorce rate can be attributed to the powerful stigma against divorce that’s present in countries where arranged marriage is common.
Elizabeth Flock
Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.
Judith Wright
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter’s from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
Terri Apter
My childhood gave me a very powerful sense of being spooked. I didn’t know whether what I was seeing were sensory images of other people’s unhappiness. Perhaps that was just the way the world manifested itself to me.
Hilary Mantel
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
Sam Levenson
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Franz Schubert
Unhappiness isn’t just the result of genetics or past trauma or career trouble. I think that some of our unhappiness is simply due to the burden of all our things.
Fumio Sasaki
What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
Colin Powell
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.
Barry Hannah
When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family – was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there’s a lot I loved in television.
Robert Pinsky
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff.
David Furnish
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.
Monica Ali
Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it’s somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
Alfred Doblin
The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.
Patti Page
Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there’s something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on ‘Mad Men’ are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
Aaron Staton
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
Charlotte Kasl
I’ve been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.
Cathleen Schine
Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle