“Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?” — Sophocles

“Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.” — Tom Robbins

“Sadness is a state of sin.” — Andre Gide

“Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.” — Paul Bourge

“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.” — Dr. Edward De Bono

“By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.” — Madame Swetchine

“Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy.” — H.L. Mencken

“The worst sin — perhaps the only sin — passion can commit is to be joyless.” — Dorothy Sayers

“O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.” — Simone Weil

“Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhap- piness.” — Joseph Addison

“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.” — Don Herold

“All mankind’s unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.” — Blaise Pascal

“None think the great unhappy but the great.” — Edward Young

“The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is … lack of faith.” — Carl Jung

“Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.” — Don Marquis

“Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.” — Bertrand Russell

“Cheerfulness I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.” — Beverly Sills