Unhappy Quotes - Page 5

• Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

  Jean Genet

  Profound, Solitude, Secret

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Unhappy Person, Trying

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• We guided our children. We supported them. We were there for them. But once you start going through your list of schools that present a potential opportunity, a young man or a young woman has to be happy with their decision. If they are unhappy, then their whole four years of college are going to be some of the most miserable memories of their lifetime.

  Craig Biggio

  Memories, Children, School

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• Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Life, Men, Treasure

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Giacomo Casanova (Preface, p. 10 in 2001 translation of Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli), 1822.

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• You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

  Gena Rowlands

  Death, Husband, Self

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• When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And the relationship that you have with animals, you can get that from your children: that unquestioning love and adoration and equal need.

  Steve McFadden

  Dog, Children, Kids

  "EastEnd Boy". www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2001.

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• I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.

  Chris Hardwick

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Chris Hardwick discusses his favorite episodes of Nerdist". Interview with Nathan Rabin, aux.avclub.com. March 07, 2013.

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• With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.

  Yishan Wong

  Thinking, Yes You Can, People

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• My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Knowing, Ignorant, Suffering

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Evil, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.342

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• The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Night, Practice

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• Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Soul

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3536, Delphi Classics

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• I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

  Magnus

  Moving, Kids, Happy Kid

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• If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Goal, Bored, Anticipation

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• There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.

  Solomon Northup

  Tired, Happy Life, Sorrow

  Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.76, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.

  Christopher Bram

  Kids, Gay, Boys

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• O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!

  Ogden Nash

  Home, Differences, Incompetence

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• On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

  Michael Tolkin

  Daughter, Monday, Car

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• A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Wealth, Persons

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• Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Player, Games

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• We're going to have plenty of work to do, but it's going to be a lot easier than here. There'll be no sorrow, no sickness, no pain, no weariness, no death, no more tears, no more crying. That's certainly going to make things easier. We're going to have rest in Heaven compared to what we've had in this life, but we're also going to have something to do. We'd eventually be unhappy if we didn't!

  David Berg

  Pain, Heaven, Sorrow

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• It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.

  David Berg

  Thinking, Years, Cities

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• You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Forever, Suffering

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• Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mind, Kind

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