Anton Chekhov Quotes

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

I've definitely gone through phases where I'm not happy with my life, and you notice in little ways until they start adding up.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.

So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

What are you going to focus on, that's what affects everybody's life. If you focus on what you can't control, you're a little crazy inside, angry and depressed. If you focus most of the time on what you don't have instead of what you do have, you're going to be extremely unhappy.

I realized that the reason why my head was so cluttered and why I was so unstable and not taking care of myself, all of these things, was that I was unhappy. If I wanted to get to a happier place and find some kind of peace, I was going to have to address problems with myself, things from my life up until that point that I hadn't dealt with: insecurities, fears, and those kinds of things.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

Happiness takes work. It doesn't always fall off trees or come easily. You really have to be someone that doesn't fall prey to being sad. I don't want sad, I can't be sad, I don't want to be about sad; I avoid sad. It inherently envelops you, so do everything that you can to escape it all the time.

When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.