Unhappy Quotes

#1. Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!' - Author: Moby

#2. I made myself unhappy measuring my love against a given norm. The truth is, we make ourselves happy in among a wide variety of loves; all count. - Author: Monique Roffey

#3. She understood from it all what a woman, if she loves sincerely, always understands before anything else
namely, that I myself was unhappy. - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it. - Author: George MacDonald

#5. They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#6. If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty. - Author: Alfred Armand Montapert

#7. Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy. - Author: Edith Cavell

#8. Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved. - Author: Gaston Leroux

#9. 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. - Author: Simon Cowell

#10. So it is that we are unhappy we sense more acutely the unhappiness of others; rather than dispersing, the emotion becomes focused ... - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on. - Author: Daphne Merkin

#12. The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight. - Author: Charles Baudelaire

#13. I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy. - Author: Sylvester Stallone

#14. Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it. - Author: Oliver Goldsmith

#15. I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy. - Author: Frances Noyes Hart

#16. Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly. - Author: Julia Child

#17. I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back ... it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn. - Author: Liza Minnelli

#18. Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation. - Author: Sun Tzu

#19. I have anecdotal evidence in my business that MBAs tend to blow up in financial markets, as they are trained to simplify matters a couple of steps beyond their requirement. (I beg the MBA reader not to take offense; I am myself the unhappy holder of the degree.) - Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity. - Author: Norm MacDonald

#21. I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day. - Author: Keira Knightley

#22. I am your husband. When you feel lonely or afraid or unhappy, it is to me you must come. My arms are here for you, and my strength too for whatever it is worth. You will never be a burden to me. - Author: Mary Balogh

#23. 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. - Author: Lakeshia Poole

#24. Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy. - Author: Rodolfo Costa

#25. I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. - Author: Thornton Wilder

#26. I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it. - Author: Alan Bennett

#27. Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy. - Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

#28. 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. - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#29. Listen. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow. - Author: Mitch Albom

#30. When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end. - Author: Jean De La Bruyere

#31. When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships) - Author: Tony Robbins

#32. My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother. - Author: Michel Templet

#33. 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. - Author: Matt Nix

#34. I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but I couldn't stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade. - Author: Jerry Reinsdorf

#35. 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. - Author: Nadege Richards

#36. So what is your star sign?' Said Mary Ellen 'Cunnilingus' Katz answered looking profoundly unhappy. - Author: Bill Bryson

#37. If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop. - Author: Leo Buscaglia

#38. Just because someone doesn't act or look unhappy doesn't mean their lives are perfect." He raises his eyebrows. "There's this method of dealing with things that involves keeping your chin up. Knowing whatever crap you're dealing with right now isn't going to last forever. All things pass. - Author: Kelley York

#39. Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#40. 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. - Author: Alexander McCall Smith

#41. I want to stay there. I don't want to go any further. I want to stay. I can't remember who it was - one of the poets, perhaps Tamundein - who said that all of our happiest hours must pass away at last, even those in which we believe we are unhappy. - Author: Sofia Samatar

#42. The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more. - Author: Kevin Gates

#43. I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn't know that my face was streamed with tears. - Author: Caroll Spinney

#44. But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times
when the odds were so high against personal happiness
to find love was miraculous, and to fulfill it as best two people could was what really mattered. - Author: Bernard Malamud

#45. It is a kind of happiness to know just how unhappy we could be. - Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#46. Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. - Author: Wayne Dyer

#47. God refuses only the person who does not admit his own weakness; He sends away only the unhappy proud person. You must "hold him" well and strongly, with a poor spirit, with a poor heart, with a life entirely poor ... - Author: Raphael Kalinowski

#48. Those who laugh the hardest are often the most unhappy. - Author: Bill Loguidice

#49. All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it? - Author: Peter Schjeldahl

#50. Not everybody who marries in the church and has a family the old-fashioned way is unhappy." "No, but some are. And even if it's just hit-and-miss . . . even if anybody can fall through the cracks, it's still not what I thought I was buying into at all. It still all feels like it makes no sense. - Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde

#51. This has been a convenience to me in travelling, where my companions have been sometimes very unhappy for want of a suitable gratification of their more delicate, because better instructed, tastes and appetites. - Author: Anonymous

#52. We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires. - Author: William B. Irvine

#53. It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy. - Author: Jacob Lew

#54. As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.' - Author: Mark Billingham

#55. Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything. - Author: Catherine The Great

#56. Breakfast was an irritable business. The clock, on the wall, MapHead noticed, seemed to make everyone unhappy. Everyone checked the clock on the wall, then rushed around looking grim. It would be a simple matter to fix it, MapHead thought. No reason not to be happy. - Author: Lesley Howarth

#57. When the road turns to the right, turn to the right! But if you are not happy with the road, turn to the left, leave the road! Find a new road; create a new path! Don't follow the road on which you feel unhappy! - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#58. (And believe me, you don't want me to be unhappy. I may be looking into the haunting thing right now.) - Author: Morgan Matson

#59. 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. - Author: Maxim Gorky

#60. Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#61. Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it but did not know it. It was the sort of time that all the Offal Court boys had; therefore he supposed it was the correct and comfortable thing. - Author: Mark Twain

#62. Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy. - Author: Wendell Berry

#63. God has commanded Time to console the unhappy - Author: Joseph Joubert

#64. 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. - Author: Ashly Lorenzana

#65. How blest was the created state
Of man and woman, ere they fell,
Compared to our unhappy fate:
We need not fear another hell. - Author: John Wilmot

#66. The masses are not happy enough to want more out of life and not unhappy enough to reject their way of living or want a better life. - Author: Gudjon Bergmann

#67. I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine. - Author: Karen Traviss

#68. Of course, from one point of view the unhappy events of our own century might be regarded as, say, demonstration ballets on the theme 'Hydrocarbon Synthesis' with strong audience participation. - Author: J.G. Ballard

#69. I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics. - Author: Loretta Lynn

#70. I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time. - Author: Steve Martin

#71. And one of the things I learned is that one should live in spite of. Although, one should eat. Although, one should love. Although, it must die. Even it is often the same even though it pushes us forward. It was despite the fact that it gave me an unhappy anguish that was the creator of my own life. - Author: Clarice Lispector

#72. unhappy Catholics should just become Protestants. - Author: The Boston Globe

#73. 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. - Author: Ariana Grande

#74. The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs. - Author: Joyce Meyer

#75. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy? - Author: William Steig

#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. - Author: George L. Brown

#77. I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing. - Author: Paolo Bacigalupi

#78. I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid. - Author: L. Frank Baum

#79. A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy. - Author: Carrie Fisher

#80. 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. - Author: James Wolcott

#81. She began to wish he would die; yet she did not want him to die because then his salary would cease. And this irritated her against him still more. She considered herself dreadfully unhappy just because not even his death could save her, - Author: Leo Tolstoy

#82. There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness. - Author: P.D. James

#83. 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. - Author: Graham Greene

#84. A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society. - Author: Simon Sinek

#85. As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children. - Author: John Climacus

#86. Your happiness depends on people around you and people you love, but peace of mind you alone can cultivate. Never loose your peace of mind even when unhappy. - Author: Bajju

#87. Am I happy or unhappy? It's not a very important question. - Author: Albert Camus

#88. A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. - Author: Cyril Connolly

#89. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs. - Author: Douglas Adams

#90. I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty. - Author: Adam Lambert

#91. I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian] - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#92. Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare. - Author: Shelby Harris

#93. I feel my life is sterile, I am unbloomed, unused, I have nothing I can have that I will ever want, only some love, only dearness and tenderness, to make me weep. I am moved now and sad and unhappy beyond cold unhappiness, beyond any inconvenience that will cause you by my affection. - Author: Allen Ginsberg

#94. Don't cheat if you are unhappy, just walk away and give the respect of the person you once loved to move on - Author: Patrick Stevens

#95. The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible. - Author: Anton Chekhov

#96. There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can. - Author: Rachel Cusk

#97. Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught. - Author: Tiger Woods

#98. Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content. - Author: Lauren Oliver

#99. Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. - Author: Mary Astell

#100. sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in - Author: Laura Lippman