Samuel Johnson Unhappy Quotations

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.