Unhappy Quotes

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

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.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

We become moral when we are unhappy.

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

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

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.