Unhappy Quotes - page 27

In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way. (Chuck Klosterman)
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. View quote
Sun Tzu
The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so. View quote
David Hume
It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides! View quote
Alexandre Dumas
I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy. View quote
Bob Dylan
I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. View quote
Doris Lessing
A State of Mind. Woke up perhaps at 3. Oh its beginning it coming – the horror – physically like a painful wave swelling about the heart – tossing me up. I'm unhappy unhappy! Down – God, I wish I were dead. View quote
Virginia Woolf
One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control. View quote
Demi Lovato
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. View quote
Douglas Adams
Already his vast shadow shed upon the unhappy planet a shade soft as a night of love. View quote
Anatole France
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. (Keira Knightley)
Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom. View quote
Rumi
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists. View quote
H. L. Mencken
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? View quote
Shantideva
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? View quote
Shantideva
Cynicism is enlightened false consciousness. It is that modernized, unhappy consciousness, on which enlightenment has labored both successfully and in vain. It has learned its lessons in enlightenment, but it has not, and probably was not able to, put them into practice. Well-off and miserable at the same time, this consciousness no longer feels affected by any critique of ideology; its falseness is already reflexively buffered. View quote
Peter Sloterdijk
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand. View quote
Ian MacKaye
If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God. View quote
Ernestine Rose
Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently. View quote
Rand Paul
And I decided that if motherhood turned a "young American beauty" into that unhappy woman, then motherhood wasn't for me, either. That youthful, emotional decision (ill-formed and made for the wrong reasons) kept me from too much early sexual experimentation, and probably turned me into a bit of a tease. I'd "neck" but only go so far, because... well, I because I was going to be a writer, "free and unhampered." View quote
Robert Butts
The eye covers distances in a second. It lusts for freedom. Looking out, I often wanted to be free - not of home, but of the city. The eye (if it's gazing upon something it's unhappy with, as I was) might see nothing. Looking up is different. I have the freedom I then wanted. (Amit Chaudhuri)
When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain Brown He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's really weird but my parents used to tell me I could do anything I wanted to. I used to say, 'Well, what if I want to be an astronaut and go to the moon?" and my dad used to say, 'If you really want to you can'. I used to think he was talking absolute rubbish, particularly when I was 21 and he was still saying that. But in a way it really stuck with me cos my dad ended up doing exactly what he wanted to do. To an outside point of view he's totally conformed, he's had a family and four kids but he's only ever done things that made him genuinely happy. "He jacked in his job cos it made him unhappy and he didn't want to compromise his entire life just for the sake of carrying it through. It's very admirable, that quality, and I think it's very rare in people. Most people feel so conditioned, so oppressed by everything that goes on around them that they just give in. You have to refuse to give in. View quote
Robert Smith (musician)