Unhappy Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others children for fear of what they'd hear, one knew that they were speaking-or not speaking, keeping their unhappy silence-on behalf of stricken motherhood everywhere in the country.

  Diana Trilling

  Mother, Country, Children

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

  Elton John

  Radio, Accepting, Pops

  "Elton John confirms film project based on his life" by Matthew Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Men, Self, Giving

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• 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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• The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Winning, Unique

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hate, Bridges, Live For Yourself

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• I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film

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• I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I am no longer the great hero No. 2, who was compared with the grape-crowned Dionysius, whilst my colleague No. 1 enjoyed the title of a Grand Ducal Weimarian Jupiter. I am no longer a joyous, somewhat corpulent Hellenist, laughing cheerfully down upon the melancholy Nazarenes. I am now a poor fatally-ill Jew, an emaciated picture of woe, an unhappy man.

  Heinrich Heine

  Hero, Men, Laughing

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.

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  Ram Dass

  Country, People, Focus

  "An Interview with Ram Dass" by Eliot Jay Rosen, www.vegetarianusa.com.

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• In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly.

  David Foster Wallace

  Country, Emotional, Drug

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• We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Falling In Love, Fall

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• Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Dream, Mean, People

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.316, Faber & Faber

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• If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the “Just fine, thank you, and how are you?” reply to the “How are you today?” The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.

  Paul Ekman

  Unhappy Person, People, Feelings

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