Quotes About Being So Unhappy

#1. I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you

Jean Rhys

#2. She's the one most likely to call bullshit on even perfunctory get-togethers, unhappy with the charade of being friends when we aren't actually anymore.

Mindy McGinnis

#3. Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with other people's compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they give the cue.

Francois Maspero

#4. I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.

Bessie Head

#5. I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

Jasper Carrott

#6. Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

Nora Ephron

#7. Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

Cornelia Funke

#8. Does a man work harder for being unhappy, unfulfilled? Is he less dedicated to his job, if he is allowed to commit himself for a life to another man instead of a woman?

Aleksandr Voinov

#9. I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

Marat Safin

#10. There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

Cary Grant

#11. I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.

Paulo Coelho

#12. I was very unhappy about being killed off on 'Supernatural' in season 7.

Jim Beaver

#13. The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

J.D. Salinger

#14. As soon as something stops being fun, I think it's time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.

Richard Branson

#15. You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

Frederick Lenz

#16. On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

Michael Tolkin

#17. If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

Michael Dell

#18. A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.

Emil Cioran

#19. You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Slavoj Zizek

#20. Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.

Augusten Burroughs

#21. You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

Gena Rowlands

#22. I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

Rebecca West

#23. If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

Stephane Hessel

#24. Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.

Grace Bridges

#25. You don't belong here if you are unhappy," she continued. "Your mother makes you hateful, and you make her hateful. It doesn't matter if she's your mother. It's an accident of birth. It doesn't have to mean so much." ... "You belong where you have the best chance of being happy ...

Laura Moriarty

#26. People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

Marcel Proust

#27. The other thing is that I'm a pretty moody guy, but no one really wants to see a normal-looking guy complain about things or talk about being unhappy. That's hard. Most people are like, 'Well, you have all your hair and you're tall, so why are you unhappy?' That can be limiting.

Gary Gulman

#28. With the wisdom of people not in love who believe a man of sense should be unhappy only over a person who is worth it; which is rather like being surprised that anyone should condescend to suffer from cholera because of so small a creature as the comma bacillus.

Marcel Proust

#29. Now I should rather suppose there is no reason for it: it is the fashion to be unhappy. To have a reason for being so would be exceedingly commonplace: to be so without any is the province of genius.

Thomas Love Peacock

#30. So the researchers concluded that being forced to confront trade-offs in making decisions makes people unhappy and indecisive.

Barry Schwartz

#31. I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#32. Being born as an Indigo, the most difficult mission is to be strong enough to retain your true "self" while living in human stereotype society. Having to pretend, to act "the same as others," can only make you so deeply unhappy and hurt - feeling as though your "wings" have been cut off.

Sahara Sanders

#33. The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

Dalai Lama

#34. I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Ariana Grande

#35. Much later I realized that Russian people, because of the poverty and squalor of their lives, love to amuse themselves with sorrow--to play with it like children, and are seldom ashamed of being unhappy.

Maxim Gorky

#36. The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

Ashly Lorenzana

#37. sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in

Laura Lippman

#38. Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love
it's being unhappy together.

Graham Greene

#39. The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

James Wolcott

#40. Don't discount your angst. Don't discount the tough times, being broke, being unhappy or even disappointed. This are the things great stories are made of.

Lakeshia Poole

#41. I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

Simon Cowell

#42. Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

Gaston Leroux

#43. Rich people are just people," said Mma Ramotswe. "I have not met a rich person yet who isn't just the same as us. Being happy or unhappy has nothing to do with being rich.

Alexander McCall Smith

#44. This proves the significance of individualism; being able to face the music, to embrace it, and then create something beautiful from it. You can't truly be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes and the pinnacle of life can only be reached when one can carve their own path.

Nadege Richards

#45. I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.

Matt Nix

#46. ...there are a lot of self-righteous people out there. And if you try to adjust your life to please them...you're just going to go crazy and risk being as unhappy as these self-righteous kooks are.

Ellen DeGeneres

#47. It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.

Mary Harron

#48. What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then?

Seneca.

#49. There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#50. Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why shouldn't you be angry or hate that person? Well, the person who is doing that is very unhappy. They are being ordered by a higher-up.

Robert Thurman

#51. I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more ... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.

Betty Field

#52. The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

Gail Collins

#53. I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

Tommy Kirk

#54. I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls.

Rob Reiner

#55. Downers some people grind away making their unhappiness the ultimate factor of their existence until finally they are just automatically unhappy, their suspicious upset snarling selves grinding on and at and for and through their only relief being to meet another unhappy person or to create one.

Charles Bukowski

#56. There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an entire woman.

Karl Kraus

#57. Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help?

Shantideva

#58. 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.

Viktor E. Frankl

#59. Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.

Christopher Bram

#60. Maybe you like being unhappy so much, you wouldn't do anything to change it.

Kurt Vonnegut

#61. It's just being who you want to be, even if you are a poor kid making loud music
about being unhappy!

John Darnielle

#62. I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life.

Elena Ferrante