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Unhappiness
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“The three horrors of modern life — talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.”
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“There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.”
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“When you are unhappy or dissatisfied, is there anything in the world more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?”
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“Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.”
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“Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid ... ”
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“Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all. ”
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“Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.”
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“Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.”
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“Misery generates hate ...”
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“Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.”
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“Unhappy people are dangerous.”
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“I lie all day and wait for night, / I lie all night and wait for day.”
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“As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things ...”
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“Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.”
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“... real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love — silent, long suffering and mild.”
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“Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.”
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“Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.”
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“I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over ...”
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“Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?”
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“For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy — even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.”
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“Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.”
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“There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.”
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“By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.”
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“She seems to be in chronic mourning for all the relatives who have died within her memory and in a state of chronic resentment over the neglect of all those who haven't died.”
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“Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. Their conversation piece anyway.”