Unhappy Quotes

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

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

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.