unhappy

Our fate is so unhappy, our land is so unhappy. The girl is crying, the sister is crying, the wife is crying, the children are crying.

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Abraham Maslow

If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

— Abraham Maslow

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

—Franz Kafka

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

You shouldn’t surrender to whatever suffering comes your way. You have to say to yourself, ‘You, suffering, want me to surrender, to say to myself that I’m unhappy. No. Pressure me all you want. I will endure it all, and in suffering itself I will find consolation.’

—Leo Tolstoy

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.

—Søren Kierkegaard

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche