Unhappiness is simply when the picture in your head doesn’t match the picture in front of you.

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

Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.

Trotter its all wrong. Nothing turned out the way it was supposed to." "How do you mean supposed to? Life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough." [..] "If life is so bad, how come you're so happy?" "Did I say bad? I said it was tough. Nothing to make you happy like doing good on a tough job, now is there?

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.” — Don Herold

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

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.

Unhappiness was my god.

Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

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

people are not unhappy because they don’t have a car or a promotion. They’re unhappy because they don’t feel comfortable, safe, successful, and satisfied.