Pastoral Resources

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

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

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

She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.

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

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

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?

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.