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Quotes About Struggle

Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
~ Hanya Yanagihara
Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.
~ Justin Kan
At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.
~ Cornelia Parker
For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.
~ Rei Kawakubo
I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff.
~ David Furnish
There is too much unhappiness in football, no?
~ Claudio Ranieri
Everybody has unhappiness.
~ Mark Lanegan
I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.
~ Jo Brand
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.
~ Thomas Campion
The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.
~ Tucker Carlson
I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
~ Al Purdy
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.
~ Susan Hayward
I was working three jobs and going to school full time. I was really unhappy and I told myself, You are not this girl. This sounds corny but I would tell myself, You are an Icy Girl. I'm a confident person, but that was the first time I experienced insecurity and low self-esteem.
~ Saweetie
My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.
~ Vincent Cassel
I'm not someone who can just be paid to play keyboards on songs. I tried to do it - I needed the money, but it made me really unhappy and ill to be doing it.
~ Jon Hopkins
I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.
~ Charles Bock
I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.
~ Jason Patric
It's no secret that many tales of tween stardom have had unhappy endings.
~ Chris Connelly
I was an unhappy teenager, and there's just no way around it.
~ Charles Bock
My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer - profoundly and deeply unhappy.
~ Saul Leiter
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
I spent so long trying to be other people, and it made me really deeply unhappy.
~ Adwoa Aboah
If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title.
~ David Hewlett