Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Gloria Steinem

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
Giacomo Casanova

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Hector Hugh Munro

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
Antonin Artaud

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Giovanni Boccaccio

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Thornton Wilder

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
Woodrow Wilson

I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career.
John Cameron

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith Sitwell

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
Francis Ford Coppola

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
Roddy McDowall

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.
Paula Danziger

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.
Tyler Perry

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning," she said. "How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.
Lauren Alaina

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
Loretta Lynn

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.
Christina Hendricks

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.
Don Knotts

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope