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about Unhappiness Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. Edward De Bono If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. Abraham Maslow Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness. Georges Simenon Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Thomas Carlyle Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. Alfred Doblin The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. Mason Cooley There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. Francois Rabelais The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. Marcus Aurelius The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them. Anton Chekhov Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. Bertrand Russell The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. Gustave Flaubert We become moral when we are unhappy. Marcel Proust | |