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Unhappiness Quotes
"It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love."
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Sigmund Freud
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
"You can’t have a sense of humor without disappointment. You have to go through moments of unhappiness to get to the funny stuff."
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Chris Pratt
"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy"
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Franz Kafka
"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it"
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Franz Kafka
"The goal of psychoanalysis is to turn neurotic misery into ordinary human unhappiness."
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Sigmund Freud
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
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Leo Tolstoy
"The more refined one is, the more unhappy"
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Anton Chekhov
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness."
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Samuel Beckett
"I hope you're happy but don't be happier"
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Olivia Rodrigo
"We consume, but we are not satisfied"
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Erich Fromm
"Sooner or later in life, everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable"
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Primo Levi
"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others"
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Aesop
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The discontented man finds no easy chair "
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Benjamin Franklin
"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
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Haruki Murakami
"I have committed the worst sin a man can commit: I have not been happy"
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Jorge Luis Borges