#unhappiness

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#catholicism #christianity #church #discipline #happiness

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. ↗

— John Green

#unhappiness #person

It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry -- school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general -- but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place. ↗

— Melanie Thernstrom

#uncertainty

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#blame #contributing #gnawing #guilt #husbands

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#freed #happy #only #soul #unhappiness

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#cause #century #changing #conform #evil

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#attached #depends #love #object #quality

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#happiness #search #sources #unhappiness

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim. ↗

— William Shenstone

#chief #leads #making #pleasure #unhappiness

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#limits #oppression #sadomasochism #sex #sexuality