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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

David Herbert Lawrence

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.