Unhappy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
-- A. C. Benson -
I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
-- Abraham Maslow -
It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
-- Agatha Christie -
What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
-- Agnes Martin -
My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
-- Al Purdy -
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
-- Alan Bennett -
I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.
-- Alan King -
Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.
-- Alan Sugar -
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
-- Albert Camus -
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
-- Albert Camus -
Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.
-- Albert Camus -
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
-- Albert Einstein -
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
-- Alexander Pope -
If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
-- Alfred Renyi -
Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
-- Alice James -
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
-- Amos Oz -
Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
-- Amy Tan -
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
-- Andre Gide -
We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.
-- Andre Maurois -
Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.
-- Anita Hamilton -
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.
-- Anjelica Huston -
I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.
-- Ann Aguirre -
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
-- Ann Brashares -
We are all carousers and loose women here; How unhappy we are together!
-- Anna Akhmatova -
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside
-- Anne Frank -
Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.
-- Anne Roiphe -
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.
-- Anne Stevenson -
I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—
-- Anton Chekhov -
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
-- Antonin Artaud -
I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.
-- Art Buchwald -
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.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.
-- Audrey Tautou -
To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.
-- Ayya Khema -
When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.
-- Barbara La Marr -
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
-- Beatrice Wood -
Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.
-- Bella Pollen -
I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.
-- Bernard Kouchner -
Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin -
I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
-- Bernardine Dohrn -
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem.
-- Bertrand Russell -
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
-- Bill Crawford -
Those who laugh the hardest are often the most unhappy.
-- Bill Loguidice -
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
-- Blake Edwards -
I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.
-- Bo Derek -
If you're unhappy with the way you played, what's the point?
-- Bode Miller -
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
-- Boethius -
Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.
-- Boethius -
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
-- Boethius -
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 -
I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him...to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good...
-- Brian Jacques -
If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?
-- Brian Tracy -
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.
-- Byron Katie -
There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
-- Byron Katie -
I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.
-- Camille Paglia -
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
-- Carlos Castaneda -
You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
-- Carole L. Glickfeld -
A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.
-- Carrie Fisher -
There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.
-- Cary Grant -
I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.
-- Cassandra Clare -
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.
-- Catherine the Great -
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..
-- Cesar Chavez -
I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.
-- Chaka Khan -
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.
-- Charles Baxter -
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
-- Charles Dickens -
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden -
Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.
-- Christopher Owens -
I’m happy when what I’m doing is helping people and unhappy when what I’m doing isn’t helping people.
-- Chuck Feeney -
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
-- Clara Schumann -
Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
-- Coco Chanel -
The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
-- Colley Cibber -
What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?
-- Cornelia Funke -
I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.
-- Dalai Lama -
Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just visitor to this planet, a guest, who will only stay for a limited time. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time alone, unhappy or in conflict with our companions? Far better, surely, to use our short time here in living a meaningful life, enriched by our sense of connection with others and being of service to them.
-- Dalai Lama -
There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.
-- Dan Harris -
Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.
-- Daniel Defoe -
The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.
-- Daphne Merkin -
Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.
-- David Karp -
That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I don’t want you to think I forgot.
-- David Levithan -
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?
-- David Lloyd-Jones -
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.
-- Demi Lovato -
The more we complain, the more unhappy we get
-- Dennis Prager -
I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.
-- Don Knotts -
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
-- Donald Knuth -
A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.
-- Dorothy Fields
