Sadness

If you're intelligent and your life is devoid of happiness, might I suggest a path of insanity? You can be intelligent, delusional, AND happy all at the same time!

Intelligence wouldn't cause so much unhappiness if there weren't so many stupid fucking people on this planet.

Id say it was more like this.

If you're a retard you're not gonna have much fun, and you'll be happier the more intellegent you get until you get to the point where you can get to as intellegent as you can be a little ditzy but have the ignorence is bliss part,

When you get past that, you dont have the ignorence is bliss and are just less intellegent than everyone else, so thats gonna suck. And it slowly gets better until you get a bit more intellegent than average. Then it kinda plateaus at high, cos you are intellegent without being too intellegent.

Then it would go down as you get too intellegent and you will find it hard to fit in with people and socialise well with others.

Its estimated people get along best with people around the same IQ of about 10-15 on average.

And remember there are 8 types of intellegence. Academic intellegence is just one.

FJ comments section: "THE WORLD WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER IF EVERYBODY WASNT SO STOOOOPID!!!11!!!one!!!!!11!!"

Frankly, I think it should be more of a parabola. There is a point where your intelligence starts to help you realize the beauty of life, even in its imperfection.

Worked for Carl Sagan that way, for example.

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
- Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway, however, was miserable during his life; he had 7 different wives, several more girlfriends and ended up killing himself. Probably shouldn't take that too seriously.

The problem, though, with this is everyone who's unhappy will instantly think they're intelligent.

Rotate it 90º you pessimistic cunt.

I sometimes think the link between happiness and intelligence is slightly overrated. Most people consider themselves intelligence even through they might not seem it. There have been several intelligent and sad people, but haven't there also been lots of people, who were both stupid and depressed?

Just because some people are depressed doesn't mean they are intelligent, and happy people aren't always ignorant and stupid...

Isn't generalizing stupid though?

I agree with this post.

What I don't agree with is people going "MAH LIEF IS SO SAD. IS COS I AM 2CLEVER 4THEWORLD. IT'S SO HARD BEING AN INTELLECTUAL"

I am of average intelligence, and my life is meh, so maybe there is some truth to it. But you gotta be pretty self-righteous and up your own arse to think that you have it worse than anyone else and to think that it's cos you're smart.

<--- Happiest woman on earth

I believe I'm an intelligent man, for the most part, even if I look like a fucking moron half the time, I still believe I am intelligent.

But my sadness doesn't come from some shit like "Crushed by my own genius" or some shit like that. I'm sad because my life goes wrong often. Sure, my intelligence causes me to overthink and freak myself out, but it's easy to dispel that, it's not the reason I'm depressed.

I will use my cleverness and brilliance to conquer depression, not let it drag me down. I will achieve my dreams with my intelligence, not let it kill them. Logically, my dream is not profitable or maybe even feasible in my case. Will that stop me? No. Because if I let my intelligence hold me back instead of helping me move forward, whats the point of having it? I use it to fight the depression, not cause it.

I agree with this graph.
Happiness is harder to attain when you are intelligent, or observant and analytical at least. Intelligent people, simply put, notice too much to be happy.
They are too self-aware. They see their own faults, their problems, the burdens tomorrow and the day after will bring.
They see the behaviors of their surrounding brethren, and are saddened, angered, by senseless debauchery, because they themselves are capable of being better and in turn expect this of their peers.
Intelligent people also place much higher expectations on themselves. Aware of the extent of their capabilities, their personal definition of success, whether consciously realized or not, is greater than that of a less intelligent person. This means they have to work harder, achieve more, to feel the same sense of satisfaction as someone else.
The result? A small percentage of people who are insecure, angry at the people around them without knowing why, and constantly sad - the hollow, empty sadness that indicates something is missing.
There's a reason the overconfident jock and timid nerd stereotypes exist - because, to some extent, they are true. Physical types are far more appreciated because intelligent people are less inclined towards self-celebration, all too aware of their own mental and physical flaws.
So take your pick. Ignorance is bliss, not for the romanticized idea of worldly innocence, but for the vision that allows its user to see into another world, one where deception and self-interest reign beneath the surface of goodwill, silver linings only hide grayer clouds, and the most horrifying spectacle lies within one's self.

This graph is such a lie.
I'm stupid and unhappy.
I'm so lonely without hitler

The second I saw this, I knew this would be the perfect bait to bring in all of the self righteous introverts here. I don't even have to look in the comments, and I'm not going to.

It's funny how well structured the comments are on this post compared to others.