Unhappy And Miserable Quotes

#1. People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

Bill Crawford

#2. Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.

Walter Benjamin

#3. It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Ben Elliot

#4. I started the movement of SF in America in 1908 through my first magazine, 'MODERN ELECTRICS.' At that time it was an experiment. Science fiction authors were scarce. There were not a dozen worth mentioning in the entire world

Hugo Gernsback

#5. Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

Frederick Lenz

#6. The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

Louise Hay

#7. happy, whole people are drawn to happy, whole people, but nothing makes a toxic person more miserable and destructive than a happy, whole person. Unhappy people do not like it when a fellow unhappy person becomes happy.

Shonda Rhimes

#8. I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.

John Travolta

#9. Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, 'I'm being fake,' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.

Evangeline Lilly

#10. 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

#11. You have to create a form from the life that exists, not the other way around. If it comes out in these little pieces, that's what it is.

Aleksandar Hemon

#12. Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

Anne Robinson

#13. That's the worst ... or the best ... of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable ... and succeeding ... even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy.

Charles Bukowski

#15. If it weren't for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we'd be living under Hitler.

Medea Benjamin

#16. Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.

Frederick Lenz

#17. One's emotions are intensified in Paris - one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

Nancy Mitford

#18. Beth," he whispered. "Come back to me."
He brought more of his blood to her.
"Damn it, don't you die!" Candles flared in the room. "I love you, damn you! Goddamn you, don't you let go!

J.R. Ward

#19. When a situation is making you truly miserable, it's difficult to say that you are "merely" unhappy. There seems to be nothing "mere" for instance, about crying for months on end, or feeling that you are being buried alive within your own home.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#20. I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

Graham Norton

#21. I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'

Kevin Bleyer

#22. On this lovely, lovely Hanukkah, drink your gin and tonica.

Adam Sandler

#23. Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals

Asa Don Brown

#24. Shame holds more value than coin ever can." He

Leigh Bardugo

#25. 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

#26. I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, i remember Clifford Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.

Anna Held

#27. The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

Coeur De Pirate

#28. 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

#29. If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

Joyce Meyer

#30. If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

Ethan Hawke

#31. The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.

Oliver Burkeman

#32. Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

Harrison Ford

#33. Hatred only hurts the hater. It does nothing to affected the hated.

Sabrina Jeffries

#34. Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

Rob Brezsny

#35. Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

George Harrison

#36. While it is best to believe in oneself, a little more from others can be a great blessing, a thing to be thankful for.

Ogwo David Emenike