Unhappy Quotes

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.'

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.

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.

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 you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

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.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?