“When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.”
Jean de la Bruyere
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
Anthony de Mello
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
Franz Kafka
“Oh, the good times when we were so unhappy”
Alexandre Dumas Père
“When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.”
Joseph Roux
“I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy”
“I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people afraid to go straight at things”
William Lock