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Topic·Unhappiness✕clear

Interview

Relationships should be based on value and fact, on how you get on, on what things you enjoy together. I think romance has caused more unhappiness almost than anything.

Diana Athill

2017

★ 1.8

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

Eric Hoffer

1955

★ 1.9

Interview

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

U.G. Krishnamurti

1984

★ 1.9

Novel

He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter · 1948

★ 3.6

Play · Comedy (play)

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

William Shakespeare

The Tempest · 1616

★ 3.8

Play

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance · 1893

★ 3.8

Novel

Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein · 1818

★ 3.9

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