What is the opposite of happiness? Anger? Sadness? No. They are not. If you are angry or sad, that means you still give a fuck about something. That means something still matters. That means you still have hope.
The opposite of happiness is hopelessness, an endless gray horizon of resignation and indifference. It is the believe that everything is fucked, so why do anything at all?
Hopelessness is a cold and bleak nihilism, a sense that there is no point, so fuck it. It is the root of anxiety, mental illness, and depression. Hopelessness is the source of all misery and the cause of all addiction.
LIBAN EVANS 