Top 98 Unhappy Man Quotes
#1. Flaubert tells us that three things are required for happiness: stupidity, selfishness, and good health. I am," he told Morgan, "an unhappy man -
Mary Doria Russell
#2. Listen, Kolya, by the way, you are going to be a very unhappy man in your life ... But on the whole you will bless life all the same.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.
Langdon Brown Gilkey
#4. Any man,' he says, 'who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.
Seneca.
#5. Yes, Lise. You see, your question whether we do not despise that unhappy man by dissecting his soul was the question of a person who has suffered a lot. I'm afraid I don't know how to put it properly, but a person to whom such questions occur is himself capable of suffering.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#6. There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.
Christopher Columbus
#8. There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.
Giacomo Casanova
#9. The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.
John Dryden
#10. All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
John Webster
#11. Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.
Anton Chekhov
#13. As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
Vernon Howard
#14. A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.
Richard Flanagan
#15. I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
Woodrow Wilson
#16. Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.'
My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.
G.K. Chesterton
#17. He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
Tad Williams
#18. Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!
Mary Shelley
#19. It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#20. A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,
the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#21. It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.
Owen Feltham
#22. The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.
Bertrand Russell
#24. Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.
Ellen Swallow Richards
#25. a lack of love:
between a man and a woman is the announcement that what they might produce would only be a badly organized, unhappy being, wanting in harmony in itself.
Alain De Botton
#26. Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. no man, if he be ungrateful, will be unhappy in the future. I allow him no day of grace; he is unhappy forthwith.
Seneca.
#28. I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.
Edna O'Brien
#29. They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no right to complain. Sit down somewhere. BUT, if it makes them unhappy then complain with the understanding that if he doesn't stop, get out the situation. End of story!
Eric Williams
#30. Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.
Simon Soloveychik
#32. [In the mines] Sometimes a man just walked over the edge [to his death] for no reason at all, or because he was unhappy and did not want to live anymore. You could never tell; there are many sadnesses in the heart of men who are far away from their countries.
Alexander McCall Smith
#33. The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
Seneca The Younger
#34. If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.
Epictetus
#35. No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself
Seneca.
#36. Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess.
Giacomo Casanova
#37. In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
George Bernard Shaw
#38. Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
Alexander Pope
#40. No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Victor Hugo
#41. She knew that Grandmother was no longer with them. The dazed look in the old man's eyes told her as much. She wanted to cry - not for Grandmother, who could suffer no more, but for Grandfather, who looked so helpless and bewildered; she did not want him to be unhappy.
Ruskin Bond
#42. There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#43. 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
#44. Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
Seneca The Elder
#45. I would fave preferred the happy man to the unhappy poems he's left us
Jack Kerouac
#46. There is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and lack freedom.
Leo Tolstoy
#47. If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.
Mark Twain
#49. Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.
Edmond De Goncourt
#51. I'd be grateful if you'd say anything, true or not, because I ran out of ideas ... responsible or irresponsible, true or not, years ago. Stick your stainless steel spoon in this unhappy old man's brains Doctor ... and stir.
Kurt Vonnegut
#52. Failure to observe what is in the mind of another has seldom made a man unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.
Marcus Aurelius
#53. He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.
Leo Tolstoy
#54. Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Christopher Morley
#55. No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It wears on a man's confidence.
Tessa Dare
#56. Man's primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. She suffered much from the adjacent presence of her daughter-in-law, whose misfortune it was to become disagreeable when she was unhappy
perhaps the heaviest curse that can be laid on man, who is born to sorrow.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#58. A man of principles," Jesse said.
"People say that about themselves when really they only want to make you unhappy.
Ron Hansen
#60. But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?
Anton Chekhov
#61. 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
#62. No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Thomas Fuller
#63. It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.
William Godwin
#64. The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.
Marcus Aurelius
#65. 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
#66. Poor, unhappy Erik! Should we pity him? Should we curse him? He asked only to be someone like everyone else. But he was too ugly. . . Why did God make a man as ugly as that?
Gaston Leroux
#67. Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
George Matthew Adams
#68. The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.
Rebecca West
#69. Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.
Joyce Carol Oates
#70. What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.
Jacques Maritain
#71. Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.
Bertrand Russell
#72. The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
Thomas Carlyle
#73. Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.
P.G. Wodehouse
#74. I wished Dean and Carlo were there - then I realized they'd be out of place and unhappy. They were like the man with the dungeon stone and the gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining. The
Jack Kerouac
#75. A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it ...
Susanna Centlivre
#76. Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot get into the line for which he is fitted.
George L. Brown
#77. The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
Anton Chekhov
#78. How blest was the created state
Of man and woman, ere they fell,
Compared to our unhappy fate:
We need not fear another hell.
John Wilmot
#79. Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?
George Washington
#80. Man is an unhappy animal and one that can talk. If he was not unhappy, he would have nothing to talk about. But if he had nothing to talk about, he would be unhappy.
Louis MacNeice
#81. You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.
Barbara Delinsky
#82. You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides of a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
Ray Bradbury
#83. For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De
Robert Galbraith
#85. As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
Aphra Behn
#86. Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
Bram Stoker
#87. A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
John Galsworthy
#88. I'm going to marry you," he said.
"Oh, Bram." Her features screwed into an expression of dismay.
"Oh, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It wears on a man's confidence."
-Bram & Susanna
Tessa Dare
#89. You know, I once read a book about people who practiced polygamy. One man with several wives. Crazy. I was just in a room with eight very unhappy woman and I have no idea why anyone would choose that.
Kiera Cass
#90. Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.
Moss Hart
#91. The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man's memory. That is our duty. If we don't fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
Jorge Luis Borges
#92. 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
#93. Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
Seneca The Younger
#94. I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.
Leo Tolstoy
#95. Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.
Orson Scott Card
#96. 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
#97. There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
William Temple
#98. It's obvious that the happy man feels contented only because the unhappy ones bear their burden without saying a word: if it weren't for their silence, happiness would be quiet impossible. It's a kind of mass hypnosis
Anton Chekhov
