Unhappy Quotes - Page 22

• The bottom line for most people who are normal is their need for other people. Even the greedy ones have this need - as long as they're not sociopathic. They may be very misguided and unhappy and do bad things and so forth, but in general if you look down deep, you find that these people are mainly concerned with other people and what other people think of them.

  Martha Stout

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Women, Atheism, Trying

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• I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Swimming, Tears, One Day

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

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• The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Happiness, Death, Greek

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1033, Delphi Classics

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• If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Pain, Bears

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• If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Love Yourself, Giving, Love Myself

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• Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Sometimes, Deceived

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• People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

  John le Carre

  Unhappy Childhood, People, Literature

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• All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

  Carlos Castaneda

  Heart, Path, Walking

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• Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

  Agatha Christie

  Happiness, Suffering, Atheism

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Remembered death”, Free Press

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• The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

  Gail Collins

  Crazy, Nice, Writing

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Stars, War, Stamina

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• I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Gun, Careers, Atheism

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• I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, People, Worry

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• I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Unhappy Person, Honest

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

  Joan Crawford

  Looks, Littles, Faces

  Interview in "The New York Times", 1972.

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• I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob Dylan, Robert Santelli (2005). “The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966”, Egully.com

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• To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

  Roger Ebert

  Long, Joy, Mind

  "Life Itself : A Memoir". Book by Roger Ebert, 2011.

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• Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

  Blake Edwards

  Race, Order, Emotion

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• At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

  Keith Emerson

  Sound, Kind, Isle Of Wight

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• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Doors, World

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• Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happy Birthday, Men, Hearing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.336, Modern Library

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• My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Experience, Path, Determined

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Parent, Faithful, Rashness

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• From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

  Grimes

  Creative, Age, Would Be

  "Grimes: nine days without food, sleep or company gave me Visions". Interview with Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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