I’m unattuned to happiness.

I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

I’m not weeping, I’m not complaining,
Happiness is not for me.

I don't think it would actually make you happier to be told you were right about this," he said finally.
"I don't want to be happy," Dahl said. "I just want to know.

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.

I’ve learnt to ask myself every day, Are you happy today? And if the answer is no I make a change.

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy myself, but I didn't.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

Don't wish me happiness — I don't expect to be happy; it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor — I will need them all.

I'm claiming the right to be
unhappy.

People talk about joy and happiness and ask me, ‘You seem like you’re so happy all the time’—and that’s just not the case. But I do choose it. And I choose it sometimes when it’s really hard to.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy?