Unhappy Times Quotes

#1. The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?

Joe Abercrombie

#3. 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

#4. I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Taylor Swift

#5. 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.

Bernard Malamud

#6. In our quest for happiness many times we evade the truth and remain unhappy. The truth lies within our hearts, regarding faith, family and inner peace. To love yourself is the largest truth you'll ever have. It's there where happiness begins.

Ron Baratono

#7. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

Cormac McCarthy

#8. In the middle of tranquillity, think about the people inside the storms! In your happy times, remember the unhappy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Alexandre Dumas

#10. Life is a stream of happy and unhappy experiences, because that leads to Soul's purification. How do you get by in the dark times? Try to give love to someone, especially then.

Harold Klemp

#11. 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

#12. There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must laugh ... people rarely see the real Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye

#13. A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

Conan O'Brien

#14. There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

Cass Sunstein

#15. If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

Fulton J. Sheen

#16. If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply "alone."

Sara Maitland

#17. Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.

Sophie Arnould

#18. I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

Stanley Kubrick

#19. 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

#20. I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, 'I'm kind of glad that happened to me.'

Susan Choi

#21. You stumble upon an unhappy Martian sentry on a mission and shoot ineffectually at his powersuit a few times before he pulps you with his laserbeam eyes and hideous poisonous-gas breath. Glory!

Daniel Keidl

#22. I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

Foxy Brown

#23. I will do anything to prove that to you. I will do anything to prove that what we have is worth a battle. What we have is worth a war.

Penny Reid

#24. It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.

Angela Carter

#25. It's kind of a strange world when you can trust a game format or platform more than the network news.

Michael Ironside

#26. Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.

Frederick Lenz

#27. Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero!
No, Andrea ... unhappy is the land that needs a hero.

Bertolt Brecht

#28. If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.

Kate Winslet

#29. The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

Jamie Dimon

#30. 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