Unhappy Quotes - Page 11

• We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Happiness, Happy, Time

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.33, Tharpa Publications US

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• while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

  Edith Roosevelt

  Book, Reading, Oneself

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• It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

  Owen Feltham

  God, Distance, Men

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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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• Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

  Alice James

  People, Way, Strange

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Unhappy Person, Persons, Knows

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.41, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

  Madame de Stael

  Heartbreak, Soul, Affection

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• I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

  Christopher Owens

  Important, Half, Cobain

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

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• Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.
  [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]

  Sophie Arnould

  Sorrow, Good Times

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• The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Hair, Common

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• There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

  Daphne Merkin

  Family, Stubborn, Particular

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• We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

  Erich Fromm

  Lonely, People, Trying

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have or To Be?”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.

  Ben Affleck

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Ben Affleck speech before the 2nd Annual Save the Children Illumination Gala, www.dailymail.co.uk. November, 2014.

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• If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time. Joy, though, is something else. It’s not a choice, not a response to some result, it is a constant. Joy is “the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do,” no matter the outcome.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Choices, Joy, Feelings

  Matthew McConaughey's Commencement Address at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, time.com. May 17, 2015.

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• People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

  Jaden Smith

  Mean, People, Faces

  Twitter post from Jan 01, 2013

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• Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

  Lucy Freeman

  Parent, Unhappiness, Endless

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• The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Self, Want

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• If you're consumed only with the big dream, you're going to die because you won't be able to feed yourself or you're going to be losing your job, so you'll just be sitting in your room dreaming, but if you're only holding onto the crap jobs that keep you just above of the water you're going to be unhappy. You're going to be burnt out, washed out.

  Robert Greene

  Dream, Jobs, Water

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Jobs, People, Meat

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause,
  With eloquence that's bought.

  Ovid

  Causes, Prisoner, Eloquence

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• The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.

  Herman Melville

  Civilization, Race, Earth

  Herman Melville (1982). “Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi”, p.230, Library of America

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• Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Wise, Dream, Hero

  H.P. Lovecraft (2015). “The Complete Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft: Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Two

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• They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Ghetto, Buddhism

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• This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Practice

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