Unhappy Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Don't appeal to mercy to God the Father up in the sky, little man, because he's not at home and never was at home, and couldn't care less. What you do with yourself, whether you are happy or unhappy- live or die- is strictly your business and the universe doesn't care. In fact you may be the universe and the only cause of all your troubles. But, at best, the most you can hope for is comradeship with comrades no more divine (or just as divine) as you are. So quit sniveling and face up to it- 'Thou art God!'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Father, Home

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• nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

  George Sand

  Sweet, Nature, Stars

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• A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

  Carrie Fisher

  Smart, Enough

  Carrie Fisher (2005). “The Best Awful: A Novel”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Long, Experience

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• The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Disappointment, Children, People

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.209, First Avenue Editions

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• For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Book, Long, Interesting

  Selma Lagerlöf (1975). “Memories of my childhood: further years at Mårbacka”, Kraus Reprint. Co.

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• I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Kindness, Quality, Use

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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 believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Unhappiness, Should

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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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• So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

  Lillian Russell

  Marriage, Firsts, Neighbor

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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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• Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Marriage, Levels, Crowds

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

  Edith Roosevelt

  Book, Reading, Oneself

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• When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.

  Ali Vincent

  Fall, Health, Clothes

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.144, Rodale

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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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