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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

— Francois Rabelais

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Philip Kaufman

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Eric Hoffer

It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.

— Edwin Markham

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

— Douglas Coupland

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

— Polly Toynbee

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

— Marcel Proust

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Don Herold

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.

— Hugh Laurie