Unhappy Quotes - Page 34

• One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Art, World, Existence

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• What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

  Jacques Maritain

  Men, Unhappiness, Knows

  "The last word on Depression" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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• Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Dream, Essence, Necessary Change

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• My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

  John Hurt

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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• We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Needs, Way

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• People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones') are even bloodier than I am.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Games, People

  "EXCLUSIVE 'Game of Thrones' Author George R.R. Martin Warns: 'People are going to die who don’t die in the books'". George R. R. Martin's speech at the 67th Writers Guild West Awards, www.showbiz411.com. February 14, 2015.

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• Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

  T. Harv Eker

  People, World, Blame

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 30, 2012

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• When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Let It Go, Clinging

  Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.

  John Medina

  People, What If, Trying

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.48, Pear Press

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• I don't want to be a star - most of the ones I know are too unhappy.

  Vivian Vance

  Stars, Want, Knows

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• I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Humor, Knows

  Steve Martin (1997). “L.A. Story: And, Roxanne : Two Screenplays”, p.5, Grove Press

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• The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

  Rob Brydon

  Thinking, Careers, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.

  Nina Dobrev

  Enjoy Life, Want, Littles

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• I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

  Christina Ricci

  School, Bored, Used

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• I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

  Jason Patric

  Three, Speed, Made

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• In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

  Zoey Deutch

  Pain, School, Lessons

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• It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

  Piero Scaruffi

  Pursuit Of Happiness, People, Pursuit

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• When you are unhappy, you are just coming in touch with your own boundaries. Turn the whole situation into a prayer & you will walk through it.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Prayer, Boundaries, Situation

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• Worry is not the symptom of a problematic life; it's the problem. Situations pass that make our life difficult, it's the worry that stay's with us that makes us ultimately unhappy.

  Garrison Wynn

  Worry, Problem, Symptoms

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• Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

  Melvyn Bragg

  Leaving, Mental Illness, Frightened

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• If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

  Amos Oz

  Fate, Sides, Injustice

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• Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

  Polly Toynbee

  Happiness, Years, Giving

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sea, Sailor, Skipper

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.224, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

  Loretta Lynn

  Two Sides, Sides

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• It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

  Jenny Agutter

  Strange, Advocating, Combination

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