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Quotes About Unhappy

Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Një shok i trishtuar është një shok i keq.
~ Milan Kundera
"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.
~ Victor Hugo
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Barely on the verge of adolescence, I was still a shy girl who preferred math homework to boys. I was neither daring nor particularly unhappy, but booze flipped a switch in me I hadn't even known was there.
~ Gail Caldwell
He was one of those men ... who know in their hearts that for all their edgy, belligerent hardness they are just unhappy kids, emotional retards.
~ Iain Banks
Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy?She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
~ Stevie Smith
Fat is a small word which belies its size in the girth of its connotations. Fat implies a certain ungainliness, an inefficiency, a sense of immobility, a lack of industry, an unpleasant, unaesthetic quality; unmotivated, unloved, unnatural, unusual, uninspired, unhappy, unlikely to go places or to fit, under the ground with a heart attack at fifty-five. In short, fat somewhat paradoxically involves the lack of many attributes which, you must concede, are generally held to be good.
~ Mohsin Hamid
As they climbed the rickety stairs and made their way along the narrow balcony that looked down into the lobby, they were most unhappy to see the bearded miner head into Room 12, and the businessman open the door and enter Room 14. Surrounded! said Christina. Shhh! said Mimi, unlocking the door to Room 13.
~ Carole Marsh
We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.
~ Charlaine Harris
Virginia Woolf described in her fiction her chracters' pain in childhood way and linked it to their emotional lives as adults in a way that was ahead of its time. "It's a fallacy to think that children are unhappy... I've never suffered so much as I did when I was a child," says Richard Dalloway M.P., in The Voyage Out.
~ Kennedy Fraser
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly
~ George Eliot
The unhappy never want enemies.
~ Samuel Richardson
I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over
~ Steig Larsson
George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.
~ Suzanne Collins
The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy
~ Jacob Zuma
The question remains whether optimizers are unhappy because they are constantly seeking a better deal or if unhappy people tend to optimize out of their misery.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have a penchant, an appetite for writing lives, even unhappy ones, in the course of which the person holds on to a certain dignity up to the end, in spite of the disappointments, the things unfinished, the suffering…
~ Natalie Zemon Davis
Further, low-self-esteem teachers are typically unhappy teachers, and unhappy teachers often favor demeaning and destructive tactics of classroom control.
~ Nathaniel Branden
about our argument tonight whatever it was about and no matter how unhappy it made us feel remember that there is a cat somewhere adjusting to the space of itself with a delightful wonderment of easiness. in other words magic persists without us no matter what we do against it.
~ Charles Bukowski
Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right.
~ Charles Bukowski
I felt too miserable to be unhappy.
~ Charles Bukowski
I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
~ Zosia Mamet