Unhappiness does make people look stupid

Unhappiness does make people look stupid

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are read more

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?

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something read more

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.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly read more

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy read more

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

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

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