“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.”

“The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.”

“The icon and the idol determine two manners of being for beings, not two classes of beings.”

“It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.”

“One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.”

“It is by being content that one chooses to live unhappy.”

“I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you”

“The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my unhappiness.”

“Paul here is unhappy because unhappiness is second nature to him but more particularly because he has not the faintest idea of how to bring about his heart's desire. And I am unhappy because nothing is happening. Four people in four corners, moping, like tramps in Beckett, and myself in the middle, wasting time, being wasted by time.”

“Unhappiness. The distinction that lies in being unhappy is so great that when someone says, "But how happy you must be!" we usually protest.”