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Quotes About Unhappy

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.
~ Frederick Lenz
I had a ploughman's lunch the other day. He wasn't very happy.
~ Tommy Cooper
The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.
~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.
~ Frederick Lenz
Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy.
~ Frederick Lenz
Harley ignored the sarcasm in the manager's voice. "Things are pretty... tense... here." "I'm sure they are. Mr. Sheenan is very unhappy, as we are, too. You've put
~ Jane Porter
pressure of suffering that night must have forced my consciousness to withdraw from its identification with the unhappy and deeply fearful self, which is ultimately a fiction of the mind.
~ Eckhart Tolle
In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a well-rounded detective was a jibe around his weight.
~ Edward Conlon
Doesn't she realize that the life she is living is an accident of fortune? Doesn't she know that she is an exception in this world, where it is normal to be unhappy, to be hungry, to work non-stop and earn next to nothing, and to suffer the whims of everything from tyrants to hurricanes and earthquakes?
~ Edwidge Danticat
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
~ Albert Einstein
The supporters were entitled to know when I was unhappy with a performance. But not an individual.
~ Alex Ferguson
Sometimes I feel like I don't deserve happiness, especially now. Maybe I'm destined for an unhappy outcome.
~ Reshonda Tate Billingsley
A graceless, inexperienced preacher is one of the most unhappy creatures upon earth: and yet he is ordinarily very insensible of his unhappiness; for he has so many counters that seem like the gold of saving grace, and so many splendid stones that resemble Christian jewels, that he is seldom troubled with the thoughts of his poverty; but (Rev3:15) thinks he is "rich, and increased in goods, and stands in need of nothing, when he is poor, and miserable, and blind, and naked." He
~ Richard Baxter
Happy the Dragon was not so happy.
~ Rick Riordan
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.
~ William Shakespeare
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
~ William Temple
The researchers summarized: "A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.". Long ago, Buddhists reached much the same conclusion.
~ David Michie
They could play married, both happy and unhappy, like no other acting couple have ever played married. They're the Lunts of the American marriage movie.
~ Jeanine Basinger
Children are uncivilized, so have a staggering power to harm, especially those people whose hearts need mending. In that house an unhappy child was too much rain on a high water table. I poured it on and the terrain liquefied.
~ Elizabeth Knox
There are many of these stories going around, these wonderful wishful thinking dreamworld inventions of the unhappy male, but most of them are too fatuous to be worth repeating, and far too fruity to be put down on paper. There is one, however, that seems to be superior to the rest, particularly as it has the merit of being true.
~ Roald Dahl
What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music… and men crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again"; that is as much to say: May new sufferings torment your soul.
~ Kierkegaard
The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!
~ Kim Harrison
Because she didn't want any of them to know just how unhappy she was being single. Especially since Serena knew a good number of women who preferred being single and that many of them were happily living their lives to the fullest.
~ Kimberla Lawson Roby