(225 quotes found)
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“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
“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
Wayne Dyer
“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”
Jean de la Bruyere
“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”
Don Herold
“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.”
Marilyn Monroe
“It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
Franz Kafka
“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
