Top 100 Quotes About Being Unhappy
#1. 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
#2. sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in
Laura Lippman
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Maybe you like being unhappy so much, you wouldn't do anything to change it.
Kurt Vonnegut
#9. It's just being who you want to be, even if you are a poor kid making loud music
about being unhappy!
John Darnielle
#10. What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then?
Seneca.
#11. If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.
Michael Dell
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.
Marat Safin
#17. There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.
Cary Grant
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
Rebecca West
#21. Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied?
Shantideva
#22. Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.
Pope Francis
#23. I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little ...
Jerry Garcia
#25. All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
Dennis Prager
#26. 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
#27. We're all gonna die someday, and in between being born and then, you only have one f***ing life. If you spend more time being happy with what you've got than you do being unhappy about things you don't have, then you've cracked the secret.
Conor Bowman
#28. The only way to live is to risk being unhappy...and I'd rather be unhappy with the person I loved than as contented as a cat by the fire.
Harry Haskell
#30. Are you unhappy? Ok. Being unhappy is a part of life; no big deal! Continue your life because neither unhappiness nor happiness drop anchor in your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. It amazes me how many people love being unhappy.
James Rhodes
#34. The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
Gustave Flaubert
#36. Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.
Norman O. Brown
#37. If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?
Eckhart Tolle
#38. If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.
Michael Josephson
#39. My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.
Dan Howell
#40. One thing that kept me from being unhappy was the mountains, for with mountaintops to see, a body can't quite despair.
Florence Maule Updegraff
#41. There are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.
Eckhart Tolle
#42. But, in reality, being unhappy might also teach him something about happiness.
Francois Lelord
#43. I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
Francis Ford Coppola
#44. The worst thing about being unhappy is not being strong enough to leave the situation.
Ron Baratono
#45. Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it?
Paul McCrane
#46. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.
Viktor E. Frankl
#47. Being unhappy means ... Even if you want to love, because of a scar, you can't. Even though you don't want to be alone, because of that scar, you can't help but be alone. Even in bright sunshine, alone, you feel like you are lost in dark darkness.
Min Sook Lee
#49. Fed up with being unhappy. Some people may feel, as I did, that they cannot live with themselves anymore. Inner peace then becomes their first priority.
Eckhart Tolle
#50. You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Hector Hugh Munro
#51. If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?
Helen McCrory
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.
Gaston Leroux
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. ...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
#61. 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
#62. There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.
Tommy Kirk
#67. I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls.
Rob Reiner
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. I was very unhappy about being killed off on 'Supernatural' in season 7.
Jim Beaver
#76. The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J.D. Salinger
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.
Emil Cioran
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. I don't mind being around those who need help and want to be helped, but I don't like to be around those who are unhappy and negative all of time,because they drain you down.
Beta Metani'Marashi
#85. Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.
Grace Bridges
#86. No person that has ever felt the benefits of being present can consider himself a victim, or unhappy in any way.
Lidiya K.
#87. 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
#88. People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.
Christina Ricci
#89. They can't beat when I'm unhappy. They try and fix it; they'd fix the whole world if they could, just to make me feel better-even when it's none of their business. It's one of the many hazards of being an only child.
E. Lockhart
#90. You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.
Frederick Lenz
#91. We look for happiness in every other thing and being around us. We live in an "if and then" model of happiness. If that happens, then I will be happy. This list of "if and then" never finishes, and we continue through our entire life learning how to be unhappy.
Rakesh Sethi
#92. 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
#93. I know why you picked her," Frank says, still sitting on the grass. "She's like you, sort of. A writer. Unhappy. Wishing she had someone who understood her. That's what killed her- being lonely.
Albert Borris
#94. If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.
David Halberstam
#95. 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
#96. Tolstoy had written something about happy families being all alike and unhappy ones each unhappy in its own way.
Alan Bradley
#97. I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.
Patrick Gale
#98. In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.
Rudolf Steiner
#99. Why should I be unhappy?
Every parcel of my being
is in full bloom.
Rumi
#100. 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
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