Unhappy Quotes - page 7

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)
I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes. View quote
Bipasha Basu
If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon. View quote
Solomon Northup
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. View quote
Red Skelton
It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn't feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this-it didn't matter. I don't have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait. View quote
Helen Oyeyemi
I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that. View quote
Anjelica Huston
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. View quote
Anne Stevenson
What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic. View quote
Anthony Holden
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race. View quote
Blake Edwards
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating. (Beatrice Wood)
I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do. View quote
Chaka Khan
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering. View quote
Claude Vorilhon
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them. View quote
Catherine Drinker Bowen
I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size. View quote
Don Knotts
The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition. View quote
Eliza Haywood
Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy. View quote
Ellen Swallow Richards
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. View quote
Fannie Hurst
Not being able to work would make me very unhappy. View quote
Ian Hart
Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy. View quote
Jasper Carrott
At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad. (Keith Emerson)
The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection. View quote
Ludwig Bemelmans
I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position. View quote
Lauren Alaina
I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy. View quote
Marat Safin
I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy. View quote
Marcel Carne