(225 quotes found)
“I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?”
Philip Larkin
“Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.”
Christopher Marlowe
“He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.”
Graham Greene
“I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people afraid to go straight at things”
William Lock
“Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's 'yes', all's well. That is enough.”
Louis Ferdinand Celine
“Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies� utopian images� can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.”
Dennis Prager
“To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.”
L. Ron Hubbard
“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”
Marcel Proust
“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”
Don Marquis
“I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy”
Joseph Roux
