I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are read more

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?

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor read more

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

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

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

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we read more

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive read more

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

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

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

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy read more

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.