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? Philip Larkin
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it. Harlan Coben
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. Agatha Christie
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood. Paula Danziger
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. J . D. Salinger
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. Mark Twain
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. Epictetus