Unhappy Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Thinking, Two, Four

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• When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Thinking, Life Is, Unhappiness

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• An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Marriage, Heart, Hands

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.150

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• Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

  Alexander Pope

  Sports, Men, Unjust

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.27

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• Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

  Wendell Berry

  Freedom, Thinking, Migrant Workers

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• Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive... Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Drinking, Decision, Departed

  Ruhollah Khomeini's announcement of ceasefire with Iraq (July 20, 1988), as quoted in Efraim Karsh "The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988", April 25, 2002.

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• I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

  Paul Schrader

  Want, Unhappiness, I Want To Be Happy

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• It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Creativity, World

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• Occupied people are not unhappy people.

  Orville Dewey

  People, Unhappy People, Happy People

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• Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

  Ivan Panin

  Unhappiness, Unfortunate, Depends

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• The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.

  Ann Landers

  Real, People, Giving

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• All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.

  Matthew Arnold

  Peace, Hate, Extinction

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.325, Delphi Classics

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• Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Disaster, Dharma

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• When you find that you're unhappy, know that it's because you're not loving properly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Knows

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• If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Real, Yoga

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• We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Trying

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• I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Pay, Jazz, Genre

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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