Unhappy Quotes - Page 9

• Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Fog, Gossip, Cynical

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.387, Penguin

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• Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is not shaken, at some time in the year, by "old, unhappy, far-off things / And battles long ago", like Wordsworth's solitary reaper. We are a nation of immigrants, and not happy in our minds.

  Robertson Davies

  Long Ago, Years, Mind

  "The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks". Book by Robertson Davies, 1947.

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• Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.

  Randall Jarrell

  Country, Confused, Passion

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "The Development of Yeats's Sense of Reality" (p. 89), 1980.

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• One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity; for unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Honesty, Men, People

  "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark Q, pp. 207-208, 1732.

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• I cannot get accustomed to war; my brain refuses to understand and explain a thing that is senseless in its basis. Millions of people gather at one place and, giving their actions order and regularity, kill each other, and it hurts everybody equally, and all are unhappy -- what is it if not madness?

  Leonid Andreyev

  Hurt, War, Order

  Leonid Andreyev (2007). “The Seven That Were Hanged”, p.148, Wildside Press LLC

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• Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Trying, Example, Variation

  "Frequently asked questions". Internet World Interview with Kris Herbst, www.w3.org. June 1994.

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• We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.

  Andre Maurois

  School, Class, Prejudice

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by André Maurois, 1918.

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• I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.

  Woody Allen

  Laughter, Fall, Thinking

  "'Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker'". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.

  Daniel Defoe

  Husband, May, Fool

  Daniel Defoe (1855). “Roxana; Or, The Fortunate Mistress: And The Life and Adventures of Mother Ross”, p.3

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• I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time.

  Angelina Jolie

  Focus, Purpose, Interviews

  "Angelina Jolie Dies for Our Sins" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. July 20, 2010.

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• This is precisely the purpose of censorship - not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.

  Hedrick Smith

  Block, Views, Knowing

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• The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Majority, Males, Truth Is

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.85, Vintage

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• The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.

  Matsuo Basho

  Loneliness, Facts, Made

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• How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning about birth? Of the stupid learning that people make love, and how it seemed the reason for all things, the intimacy of my wondering, the illumination that to an adolescent was the cause for life around me, the reason why the unhappy people I knew did not kill themselves?

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Stupid, Illumination, People

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser p. 222, 1949.

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• A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very unhappy"; whereupon I answered fiercely, "How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?".

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Beautiful, Thinking, Friendly

  Wolfgang Pauli, Charles Paul Enz, K. v Meyenn (1988). “Wolfgang Pauli: das Gewissen der Physik”

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• Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary; it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Envy, Soul, Excellence

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• People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.

  Christina Aguilera

  Stars, Sleep, Thinking

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• So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" - and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Numbers, Leader, Messages

  "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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• The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.

  Nat Friedman

  Fire, Progress, Way

  Personal Blog, August 06, 2002.

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• Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, People, Good Relationship

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• It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.

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• [S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Light, Evil, Joy

  Olaf Stapledon (1974). “Darkness and the light”, Hyperion Pr

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• I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

  Bernard Kouchner

  Firsts, Unhappiness, Currents

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• One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Prayer, Moving, Ill Will

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• If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Parent, Psychology

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

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