Call no man unhappy until he is married.
Socrates
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness, too much insensibility creates crime.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
We are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Poverty does not bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer