Being Unhappy Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Wine, Men

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive.

  Esther Hicks

  Feelings, Unhappy, Desire

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• If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

  Helen McCrory

  Unhappy, Frightened, Bloody

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never compromise and sell yourself short. I've been in the music business, a girl group . . . I've been through so many different things in my career, and when you compromise and try to let go of who you are, you wind up being unhappy, and what is success without happiness. You have to have both, and that is important to me.

  Naturi Naughton

  Girl, Letting Go, Wind

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• One of the reasons why I fought for my roles is that I think there are so many things about them that are just human, but people like to label them as weird or bad or wrong because they're scared of them. I don't consider them bad - they're girls. They're going to make mistakes, but the films show the repercussions and show that they're going to learn. A lot of people are made to feel bad for being sad, so on top of already being unhappy, you're gonna hate yourself for it.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Girl, Hate, Mistake

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• It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.

  Mary Harron

  Moving, Ideas, Unhappy

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• The other thing is that I'm a pretty moody guy, but no one really wants to see a normal-looking guy complain about things or talk about being unhappy. That's hard. Most people are like, 'Well, you have all your hair and you're tall, so why are you unhappy?' That can be limiting.

  Gary Gulman

  Hair, People, Guy

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• I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.

  Bessie Head

  Mean, Light, Sky

  Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

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• 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

  Psychics, Empowerment, Unhappy

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• 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.

  Michael Tolkin

  Daughter, Monday, Car

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• I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

  Jasper Carrott

  Simple, Satisfaction In Life, Feet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Unhappy, Use, Ifs

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• If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.

  Michael Josephson

  Lonely, Being Alone, Mean

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• If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

  Michael Dell

  Unhappy, Very Good, Deals

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• You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Unhappy

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• Tired of being unhappy? Fix it.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Tired

  Twitter post from Jun 4, 2014

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• What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

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• I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps.

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Sleep, Mind

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• You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Optimistic, Acceptance

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• A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.

  George Wald

  Knowledge, Gay, Science

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

  Cary Grant

  Thinking, Unhappy, Growing

  Nancy Lynn Nelson, Cary Grant (1991). “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best”, William Morrow & Company

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• Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it?

  Paul McCrane

  Unhappy

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• Putin has made life difficult for a lot of Russia's richest men; they don't like the sanctions; they don't like the war with the West. Many of them have houses and families and businesses in the West, and so I can see them being unhappy. But at the moment, the political system is so constructed that it would be very difficult for them to leave. That's not saying it couldn't change.

  Anne Applebaum

  War, Men, House

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Opportunity, Suffering, Unhappy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

  Graham Greene

  Relationship, Discovery, Tears

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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