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. . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: ACCIDENTS ADVERSARY ADVERSITY ALIENATION, ALONE ANNOYANCES ANXIETY BURDENS CALAMITIES CRISIS CRYING DEFEAT DEPRESSION DESPAIR, DESPERATION DIFFICULTIES, DILEMMA DISAPPOINTMENT, DISASTER, DISCONTENT DISILLUSION GRIEF HAPPINESS HARDSHIP HURT JEALOUSY LONELINESS MELANCHOLY MISERY MISFORTUNE OBSTACLES OPPRESSION PAIN PESSIMISM PROBLEMS REGRET REMORSE RESENTMENT SADNESS SORROW STRUGGLING SUFFERING, SUICIDE TEARS TRAGEDY TROUBLE, TROUBLE MAKERS WORRY A man should always consider [...] how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. "The Spectator" [30 July 1714] But a perverse temper and fretful disposition make any state of life unhappy. [Latin: Importunitas autem, et inhumanitas omni aetati molesta est.] --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. _De senectute_ [4544 BC] Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. --Edward de Bono (1933 ) Malta-born psycologist. Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. --Robertson Davies (19131995) Canadian author and playwright. "The Table Talk of Robertson Davies" in _Maclean's_ (mag.) [September 1972]. The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. --Diana, Princess of Wales (19611997) Former wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. --attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky (18211881), Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer. Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Elective Affinities_ [1809] If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. --Eric S. Raymond (1957 ) American computer hacker. You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. --Ruth E. Renkl There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. _Parents and Children_ [1914] "Children's Happiness" A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world. --Thomas Szasz (1920 ) American psychiatrist. _The Untamed Tongue_ [1990] "Social Relations" Too much sensibility creates unhappiness, too much insensibility creates crime. --Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Pιrigord (17541838) French statesman. _Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand; Edited from the Papers of the Late M. Colmache, Private Secretary to the Prince_ [2 vol. 1848]. ----- malaise (noun) [mκ-'leyz] A vague sense of physical illness or mental dispiritedness. woebegone [WOE-bee-gon], adjective: 1. Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. 2. Being in a sorry condition; dismal-looking; dilapidated; run-down. end page | UGLY - UNICORNS | UNHAPPINESS | UNIONS - USELESS | VACATION - VEGETABLES | VENICE - VICTORY | VIGILANCE - VIRGINITY | VIRTUE - VULGARITY | WAGES - WAR & PEACE | WAR (THE CIVIL) - WAR (THE REVOLUTIONARY) | WAR (THOUGHTS ABOUT) - PAGE 1 (A-M) | WAR (THOUGHTS ABOUT) - PAGE 2 (N-Z) | WAR (VIETNAM - PAGE 1 A-M) | WAR (VIETNAM - PAGE 2 N-Z) | WAR (WORLD WAR I) | WAR (WORLD WAR II) PAGE 1 (A-M) | WAR (WORLD WAR II) PAGE 2 (N-Z) | WASHINGTON (D.C.) - WEAK/WEAKNESS | WEALTH - WEASELS | WEATHER - WELLS (H.G.) | WEST (THE OLD/WILD) - WILDE (OSCAR) | WILL - WINNING | WINTER - WISDOM | WISHING - WIVES | WOMEN - WOMEN'S LIB | WOMEN'S RIGHTS - WORDS | WORK - WORLD | WORLD TRADE CENTER & PENTAGON DISASTER, 11 SEPTEMB | WORRY - WRONG | WRITING | YESTERDAY - ZOOS | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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