Unhappy Quotes

Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.

Unhappy is a nice word.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.