unhappiness

noun

A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits: blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, gloom, glumness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mope (used in plural), mournfulness, sadness. See feelings, happy/unhappy.

The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
  Synonym: sadness

Meaning #2: state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief
  Antonym: happiness (meaning #1)

Quotes:

"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world." - Samuel Beckett

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations." - Edward De Bono

"There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow." - Dorothea Brande

"Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite." - Thomas Carlyle

"Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough." - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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