The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

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

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

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

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.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.