Unhappiness Quotes

“It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.”

“Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!”

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

“We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.”

“.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness”

“Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.”

“Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.”

“The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.”

“There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.”

“[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”

“The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

“Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.”

“When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.”

“Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.”

“Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.”

“Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness”

“All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous.Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body”

“Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.”

“When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.”

“Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness”

“My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.”

“Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.”

“Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.”