Unhappy Quotes - Page 36

• As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

  John Climacus

  Children, Anger, Long

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• By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Children, Growing Up, Teaching

  Cheryl Richardson (2003). “Stand Up for Your Life: A Practical Step-by-Step Plan to Build Inner Confidence and Personal Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Lonely, Brother

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Charity, Facts

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.17, Vintage

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• Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

  E. B. White

  America, Englishmen

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• If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Home, Names

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• If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Desire, States, Left

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Sad, Usual, Pretext

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• All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Long, Guarantees, Searching For Happiness

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• To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Children, Self, Daydreaming

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• The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Frail, Creatures

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• The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Cutting, Men, Doe

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Thinking, People

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• A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Mistake, Reality, Interesting

  The Unquiet Grave Pt II

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• It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

  Publilius Syrus

  Enemy, Popularity

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• Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

  Publilius Syrus

  Grief, Language, Weeping

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• I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

  Aldous Huxley

  Here I Am, Doubt, Ignorant

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Food, Eating, Harder

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• Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.

  Andre Gide

  Christian, Soul, Atheism

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• Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pain, Men, Unhappiness

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

  Juvenal

  Girl, Gay, Happy Life

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• Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

  Juvenal

  Men, Woe, Poverty

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• Families without songs are unhappy families.

  Pat Conroy

  Song, Singing, Happy Family

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Great Santini: A Novel”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

  Anne Stevenson

  Laughing, Confusion, Today

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• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  Ian Fleming

  Sex, Confused, Men

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