(196 quotes found)
“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
“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
Wayne Dyer
“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”
Don Herold
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”
Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”
Bertrand Russell
“There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage”
Mark Twain
“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness”
Georges Simenon
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
Franz Kafka
“Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic”
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