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Quotes About Unhappy

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. In fact, said Mustapha Mond, you're claiming the right to be unhappy. All right then, said the Savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.
~ Aldous Huxley
Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?
~ Aldous Huxley
What a waste! What a horrible, senseless waste. When happiness was so wonderful, how could anyone cling to a love that made them unhappy?
~ Alexandra Ripley
Oh, count, have pity upon me. I am so unhappy.' 'I have known a man much more unfortunate than you, Morrel.' Impossible! 'Alas,' said Monte Cristo, 'it is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
~ Alexandre Dumas
none of them were happy.
~ Donna Ball
Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
~ Aristotle
She's no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It's called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
~ Gary Bettman
The mixtures of shells and light makes you confused and unhappy. One side employing the force of he other merging. You're one of those people who hears the sun come up.
~ Robert Stone
Others who habitually do their duty and find a sullen satisfaction in making themselves and everybody else unhappy, might have withstood it.
~ Robert W. Chambers
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it 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.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.
~ Sam Harris
This was the kind of moral dilemma Pauline often got her into. Mr. Someone-or-Other, Pauline had mouthed. Adele at lunch with him, crying. But Mr. Who? She turned to her typewriter, Pauline's eyes still on her. She would like to ask "Who?"—but to do so, in that same mouthing whisper Pauline had used, would be to enter too fully into Pauline's tale, Pauline's bitter triumph, and, in some way, into Pauline's unhappy life. But Mr. Who?
~ Alice McDermott
it was Hooper. The big, pale dog stared urgently into Wayne's face, forepaws on the bed. His damp gaze was unhappy, even stricken.
~ Joe Hill
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
~ Edward Abbey
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
He knew that loneliness was poisoning him, so that he grew viler as well as more unhappy.
~ E.M. Forster
The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
Socialism produces bad music, bad art, social stagnation and really unhappy people.
~ Frank Zappa
We must preach about both God's anger at injustice and God's faithfulness, which comes from God's grace. Sadly, some preachers never talk about sin, because that topic leaves people unhappy and uncomfortable.
~ Ronald J. Allen
In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.
~ Mick Fleetwood
Happy people is a great hope to all the unhappy people because a path of success can always be used by the people who couldn't find such a path yet!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan