Unhappiness

(473 votes)   The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(354 votes)   The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(344 votes)   Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(193 votes)   All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer

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(146 votes)   Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ''yes,'' all's well. That is enough.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine
1894-1961, French Author

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(132 votes)   The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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