Unhappy Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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• If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Cheerful, World

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.279, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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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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• We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Real, Vanity

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• I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.

  Edna O'Brien

  Sleep, Men, Dating

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• I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of complexity, they would prefer it if the world were very simple, but then it would be a doom for a cryptographer like myself.

  Adi Shamir

  Science, Simple, Thinking

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• Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I cannot afford to have. I don't see how people ever have money enough to live here.

  Dorothy Gish

  New York, People, Want

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• People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

  Sue Grafton

  Happiness, Grief, Unhappy Childhood

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• It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."

  Tom Hanks

  Wake Up, Disaster, Crisis

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts LARRY CROWNE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 28, 2011.

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• If we start worrying whether our nose is too big or too small, we should think, “What if I had no head? - now that would be a problem!” As long as we have life, we should rejoice. If everything doesn't go exactly as we'd like, we can accept it. If we contemplate impermanence deeply, patience and compassion will arise. We will hold less to the apparent truth of our experience, and the mind will become more flexible. Realizing that one day this body will be buried or burned, we will rejoice in every moment we have rather than make ourselves or others unhappy.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Thinking, Compassion, Worry

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• The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

  Mason Cooley

  Unhappiness, Prisoner, Rounds

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• Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Woven, Happy Marriage

  "War Within and Without". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1980.

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• Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hurt, Soul, Mistress

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.145

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• The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Unjust

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Family, Mother, Children

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• three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

  Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

  Marriage, Three, Happy Marriage

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• Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, School, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.307, Library of America

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• True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it ... They may have no reason for feeling more unhappy at that particular period than at any other. Their worldly circumstances may be just what they have been for a long time past, and perfectly satisfactory. But there suddenly closes down on them a fog of the mind which exaggerates and distorts everything.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Depression, Real, Past

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• The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

  Ralph Charell

  Love, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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• Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Husband, Men, Two

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• Whate'er my doom;
  It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me
  The boon of resignation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Given, Boon, Doom

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• The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school].... In the long run, a child's emotional development has a far greater impact on his life than his school performance or the curriculum's richness, so it is wise to do everything possible to change a situation in which a child is suffering excessively.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Wise, Running, Children

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