Sayings about Sadness & Unhappiness
One moment’s error becomes a lifetime of sadness.~ Chinese Proverb
Unhappiness can be a bridge to happiness. ~ Japanese Proverbs
One man’s happiness is another man’s sadness. ~ Brazilian Proverbs
A sad bride makes a glad wife.~ Dutch Proverbs
Marriage without lovemaking means sad consequences and sorrow. ~ Maltese Proverbs
A satisfied man is happy even if he is poor; a dissatisfied man is sad even if he is rich. ~ Chinese Proverb
It’s a sad house where the hen crows louder than the rooster.~ Scottish Proverbs
A smiling face dispels unhappiness. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
It’s better to lie a little than to be unhappy. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Only he who understands is really sad. ~ Arabian Proverb
It is a sad situation for a son-in-law when his mother-in-law praises him.~ Chinese Proverb
If the heart is sad, tears will flow.~ Ethiopian Proverbs
Sadness is a valuable treasure — only discovered in people you love.~ Malagasy Proverbs
Quotations about Sadness & Unhappiness
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~ Edward De Bono
We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again. ~Author Unknown
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. ~ Simone Weil
One must be perfectly stupid to be perfectly unhappy. ~ Author Unknown
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.~ Pierre Corneille
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy. ~ Joseph Roux
Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.~ John M. Thomas
Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy. ~ Martin Luther
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.~ Jean Giraudoux
Women get unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. ~ Brigitte Bardot
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy. ~ Author Unknown
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. ~ Joseph Roux
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.~ William S. Burroughs
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. ~ William James
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.~ Andre Gide
It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. ~ Samuel Johnson
We become moral when we are unhappy. ~ Marcel Proust
Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.~ Bible
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental in harmony. ~ James Allen
Call no man unhappy until he is married. ~ Socrates
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks. ~ François de la Rochefoucauld
The more refined one is the unhappy. ~ Anton Chekhov
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy. ~ Alexandre Dumas
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt… doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.~ Comte De Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.~ R. W. Dale
You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. ~ Ruth E. Renkl
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.~ Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
All mankind’s unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. ~ Blaise Pascal
The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most. ~ Robert Kiyosaki
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. ~ Don Knuth
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy? ~ Leslie Caron
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world. ~ Samuel Beckett
No-one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. ~ Groucho Marx
Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy. ~ Eddie Barclay
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. ~ H. L. Mencken
Activity and sadness are incompatible. ~ Author Unknown
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so. ~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.~ Patti Smith
It’s sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. ~ Author Unknown
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is… lack of faith. ~ Carl Jung
A moment of time may make us unhappy forever. ~ John Gay
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. ~ Aesop
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~ Count Leo Tolstoy
Sadness and gladness succeed each other. ~ Author Unknown
The best thing for being sad is to learn something.~ Theodore White
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it. ~ Don Herold
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ~ George Santayana
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life. ~ Abraham H. Maslow
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.~ Anita Brookner
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.~ Thomas Fuller
Sadness is a state of sin.~ Andre Gide
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. ~ Joseph Addison
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness — the sense that is where we really belong. ~ Graham Greene
You don’t seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. ~ Jean Kerr
Never believe straight off in a man’s unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer’s “yes,” all’s well. That is enough. ~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.~ William C. Bryant
The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so. ~ David Hume
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.~ Jim Rohn
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.~ Emile Durkheim
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, so the one is pretty equal to the other. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. ~ Tom Robbins
Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. ~ Lyn Yutang
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
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
To worry about tomorrow is to be unhappy today. ~ Author Unknown
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways. ~ Christina of Sweden
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness? ~ Sophocles
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~ Eric Hoffer
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world. ~ Samuel Beckett
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. ~ Henri B. Stendhal
The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity. ~ Lucian
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will. ~ Seneca
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. ~ Dorothea Brande
Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. ~ W.N. Rieger
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added. ~ Samuel Johnson
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. ~ Publilius Syrus