Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

No one is happy all his life long.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

Misery is a communicable disease.

HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Not enough people in this world are happy.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

Unhappy is a nice word.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

Not being happy really is my fear.