unhappiness

One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.