„My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then?“

— Franz Kafka

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„Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.“
— Patañjali
„“Is he then an unhappy man?”Poirot said:“So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.”The nun said softly:“Ah, a rich man…”“
— Agatha Christie
„It's what's inthat makes you happy or unhappy.“
— Agatha Christie
„Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Unhappiness. The distinction that lies in being unhappy (as if to feel happy were a sign of shallowness, lack of ambition, ordinariness) is so great that when someone says, "But how happy you must be!" we usually protest.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche