Not Happy Quotes - Page 4

• I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.

  Roy Haynes

  Baby, Spring, Bird

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• When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

  Ayrton Senna

  Strong, Temptation, Needs

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• Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

  Elliott Smith

  Song, Way, Really Sad

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• I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Country, Two, Wish

  Hanan al-Shaykh (2013). “Beirut Blues”, p.366, Anchor

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• You always felt not happy about things, but you just couldn't put your finger on what was going.

  Warren Mundine

  Fingers, Felt

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• When I'm not happy, I can't play. That's just the way I am.

  Jaromir Jagr

  Play, Way, I Can

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• I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

  Grace Jones

  Things In Life, Worst, Farmers

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• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Safari

  "True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir".

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• Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• Always know that if you’re not happy with yourself, no one else can change that, no girl or guy, no amount of money; only yourself.

  Shannon Leto

  Girl, Guy, Happy With Yourself

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• There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good time with their lives. People are not happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Meditation

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• Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.

  Anthony Daniels

  Sex, Men, Doe

  "All Sex, All the Time". www.city-journal.org. Summer 2000.

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• You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, House

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• How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Thinking

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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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• I was not happy as a traveller, I did not feel really at home anywhere I went, even in Spain which was the most I felt at home, I still was a foreigner. I missed Australia, and I can't tell why. It's just this is what I grew up with and this is the things I wanted to make meaning of in my life.

  Richard Meale

  Home, Australia, Spain

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

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• Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Happy Life, Realizing

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• That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, not mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Memories, Home, Tvs

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

  Aaron Copland

  Useless, Satisfied, Audience

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• I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

  Amanda Palmer

  Creative, Energy, Initials

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy.

  Drew Fuller

  Laughter, Fun, People

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• There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Happiness, People, Our Society

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• Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mean, Contentment, Desire

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• An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

  Robin Gibb

  Artist, World, Existence

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