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Quotes About Unhappiness

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.
~ Jack Lew
During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.
~ Norah Jones
People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.
~ Penelope Wilton
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
~ Harlan Coben
Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.
~ Dolph Lundgren
Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.
~ Jasper Carrott
I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.
~ Meg Cabot
If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.
~ Marian Seldes
The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp. I hit a creative stagnation that wasn't helping us forward, and the personal elements, it just was time to stop.
~ Les Claypool
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.
~ Joss Whedon
There are so many rules in Judaism, and if you get into them and you get obsessed and you have the kind of life that I have, it can make you a very unhappy person. It can make everything complicated and more stressful than it needs to be, so I kind of loosened the knots a little bit.
~ Matisyahu
Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.
~ Laura Wasser
Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.
~ Stephen Kinzer
I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.
~ Christina Ricci
The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.
~ Penelope Wilton
What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.
~ Alice Englert
I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.
~ Tommy Kirk
Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
~ Patrick deWitt
We all suffer in our own way; like, life is miserable. And I'm not, 'Oh, I'm a stand-up who's sad,' but the reality is that just about everyone is quietly unhappy. I don't think that pertains to comedians specifically. I think most people look at themselves in the mirror and are not happy with what they see.
~ Nick Kroll
Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Perhaps I've found the secret for an unhappy private life. Every three years, I go and marry a girl who doesn't love me, and then she proceeds to take all my money.
~ Glen Campbell
I hate when people say, 'Oh, they laughed all the way to the bank.' That's nonsense because the most cynical, unhappy people are Hollywood screenwriters. They earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for work that's never made.
~ Susan Isaacs
It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
~ Natalie Cole