Quotes About Unhappiness

Like my father, I grew distracted and unhappy when I could not usefully occupy my time.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Amy was not happy. For whatever reason. I'm not even going to ask. I can guess, but I'm not going to ask. But I know you must know this: Amy likes to play God when she's not happy. Old Testament God." "Meaning?" "She doles out punishment

He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy. You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time. That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all. You'd make my bed for me? Perhaps.

I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.

Who could blame her for seeking my scars in return? When we are unhappy we hurt.

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness.

it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.

We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness. It's as if we were working together on the same statue, cutting it out of each other's misery. But I don't even know the design.

He said, 'You don't have to make conversation with me.' 'My husband says that I am too silent.' 'Silence is not a bad thing.' 'It is when you are unhappy.

Love is not wrong, but love should be happy and open -- it is only wrong when it is secret, unhappy . . . It can be more unhappy than anything but the loss of God. It is the loss of god. You don't need penance, my child, you have suffered quite enough.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that it is where we really belong.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

There's nothing worse than doing something you really don't enjoy.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.

A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness.