15 quotes found
“I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.”
“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”
“Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.”
“The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.”
“Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.”
“Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.”
“O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.”
“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”
“All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.”
“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.”
“Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure.”
“Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?”
