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Unhappy Quotes

1.
The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more.
Kevin Gates

Authors on Unhappy Quotes: Frederick Lenz Mehmet Murat Ildan Eckhart Tolle Dalai Lama Leo Tolstoy Ralph Waldo Emerson Victor Hugo Bertrand Russell Lin Yutang Francois de La Rochefoucauld Kurt Vonnegut Fyodor Dostoevsky Rajneesh Dennis Prager Marcel Proust Cassandra Clare Seth Godin Boethius E. M. Forster Anton Chekhov Albert Camus Tony Robbins Robert Louis Stevenson Nick Hornby Norman Vincent Peale Shantideva Joyce Meyer Byron Katie Seneca the Younger Epictetus Jean de la Bruyere Rush Limbaugh Laura Michelle Kelly
2.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being,
you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Abraham Maslow

If you aspire to be anything less than what your abilities allow, you will likely experience unhappiness throughout your lifetime.
3.
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is preferable to be miserable and face the truth than to be content in an illusory bliss.
4.
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
Blaise Pascal

5.
All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.
U.G. Krishnamurti

I can assure you that so long as you are seeking contentment, dissatisfaction will linger.
6.
I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little.
Jerry Garcia

7.
When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.
Constantin Stanislavski

When portraying a person who is harsh, seek out the gentle moments. When embodying someone who is despondent, search for glimpses of joy.
8.
When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.
Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are elated, you perceive the luminosity even amidst the murkiness; when you are despondent, you discern the gloominess even in the radiance.
9.
Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help?
Shantideva

10.
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
Louis XIV

Each time I place someone into an open role, I incite discontentment amongst many and evoke ingratitude from one.
11.
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
Michael J. Fox

12.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Brigitte Bardot

13.
There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.
Cary Grant

14.
All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those who are happy in the world are so as a result of their desire for the happiness of others.
Shantideva

15.
You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best,
the very best you are capable of becoming.
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being,
then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life.
You will be evading your own capacities,
your own possibilities.
Abraham Maslow

16.
You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.
Wayne Dyer

17.
The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.
Rabindranath Tagore

18.
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent, Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn’t one.
Wei Wu Wei

19.
People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—
Anton Chekhov

20.
Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.
Franz Schubert

21.
Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.
Catherine the Great

22.
In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.
Rudolf Steiner

23.
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?
Martyn Lloyd-Jones

24.
Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.
Blake Griffin

25.
The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy
Jacob Zuma

26.
It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.
Janis Joplin

27.
My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
Agnetha Faltskog

28.
My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.
Richard P. Feynman

29.
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
Cesar Chavez

30.
How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.
Francis Frangipane

31.
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
Alfred Renyi

32.
Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just visitor to this planet, a guest, who will only stay for a limited time. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time alone, unhappy or in conflict with our companions? Far better, surely, to use our short time here in living a meaningful life, enriched by our sense of connection with others and being of service to them.
Dalai Lama

33.
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.
Roger Ebert

34.
I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.
Anjelica Huston

35.
Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.
Konosuke Matsushita

36.
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger

37.
Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.
George Harrison

38.
That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

39.
Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.
Robert H. Schuller

40.
Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied?
Shantideva

41.
I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female humorist, and I never was one myself. I couldn't do it. A "smartcracker" they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy. There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy Parker

42.
Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.
T. Harv Eker

43.
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
Fannie Hurst

44.
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
Leo Tolstoy

45.
I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.
Keith Moon

46.
A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.
Robert Sheckley

47.
The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.
Penelope Wilton

48.
Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.
Liz Phair

49.
I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary project, I'm utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down.
Kaari Utrio

50.
It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
Agatha Christie