Unhappy Quotes

We would be happier with what we have if we weren't so unhappy about what we don't' have

Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

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.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

I don't want to be a star - most of the ones I know are too unhappy.

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.

And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

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.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.

Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.