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Quotes About Unhappy

What's the point of massive achievement if your life has no balance? And what's the point of winning the game if you never take the time to celebrate and appreciate the life you have? There's nothing worse than a rich person who's chronically angry or unhappy.
~ Anthony Robbins
The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once. 2 NO HUMAN eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which
~ Shirley Jackson
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. People corwd around the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much to say, May new sufferings torment your soul.
~ Soren Kieekegaard
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.
~ Dan Howell
But men ought to be able to manage their own affairs," I said. "After all most of them don't seem to mind speaking frankly and making people unhappy.
~ Barbara Pym
To say that someone is tranquil doesn't, after all, imply contentment, only perhaps a peaceful acceptance of or yielding to an unhappy fate.
~ Barbara Vine
I wanted to write enormous naturalistic novels with unhappy endings, full of detailed descriptions and arresting similes, and also full of purple passages in which words were used partly for the sake of their own sound.
~ George Orwell
Happiness is a treadmill of a goal for people who are not happy by nature. Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy.
~ Augusten Burroughs
sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend
~ Stephen King
An accident is sometimes an unhappy woman's best friend.
~ Stephen King
Happiness is, when it comes to the understanding of its meaning, to sometimes be unhappy.
~ Hasse Jerner
I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If I'm going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I'm happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I feel highs so ecstatic that just being normal feels like a thousand-mile drop and being unhappy is excruciating.
~ Emma Forrest
If one of the best ways to appreciate life is to have an unhappy childhood, I was very fortunate.
~ Eric Idle
Indulgence makes a child fat. Restriction makes a child fat and unhappy.
~ Bee Wilson
Amongst the deported are many Catholics. Would it not be possible that Your Holiness make another attempt to intercede for these unhappy innocents? Your intervention represents the last hope of so many and the fervent entreaty of all decent men.
~ Gitta Sereny
The place was very like the world: overcrowded with lust and crime and unhappy love, it stank to heaven; but he realized that after all it was possible to find peace there, when you knew for certain that the time was short.
~ Graham Greene
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.
~ Solomon Northup
I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?
~ Frederick Lenz
So the researchers concluded that being forced to confront trade-offs in making decisions makes people unhappy and indecisive.
~ Barry Schwartz
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
~ Joseph Addison
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
~ Joseph Butler
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.
~ Evan Thompson