#unhappy

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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