Unhappinesses Quotes & Sayings

Men and women are not "equal" if "equal" means "exactly the same." Our many puzzlements and indeed unhappinesses come from trying to figure out what the differences really mean, or should mean, or should not mean. — Margaret Atwood

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back. — Ruth Ozeki

Like so many unhappinesses, this one had begun with silence in the place of honest open talk. — Ira Levin

Of course I would fall for Captain Emotionally Constipated. I could train a rock to hold more affection for me. — K.M. Shea

Success is not about what you do, it's about you feel about what you do. — Alexandra Silber

Mina felt as if she were on cloud nine and three-quarters, — Chanda Hahn

My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz. — Tom Hollander

I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians. — Tamara Tunie

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves. — Philip James Bailey

It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard. — Jane Hirshfield