William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves."
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Unhappiness
151 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Osamu Dazai
Novelist
"Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.Everything passes."
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness."
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"Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons."
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"The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside."
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"Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy."
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"Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth."
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"Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness."
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"All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is."
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"Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception"
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"Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy."
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"Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it."
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"People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success."
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"Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
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"No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed."
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"Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid"
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"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness."
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"Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy."
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"This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness."
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"A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny."
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"If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?"
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"Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind."
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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
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