Unhappy Quotes

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
Ingrid Bergman

Success, Down, Remember

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Franz Kafka

Thought, Until, Action

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
Colin Powell

Society, Others, Seeing

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
Thomas Huxley

Life, Happy, May

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel Johnson

Equality, Happy, Rather

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
Anton Chekhov

We become moral when we are unhappy.
Marcel Proust

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
Michael J. Fox

Accept, Expect, Serene

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Lord Byron

Love, Sometimes, Less

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
Agatha Christie

Why, Themselves, Achieving

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
Joseph Addison

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger

Artist, Worst, Constantly

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'
Matthew Macfadyen

Life, Work, Yourself

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

Happy, Deep, Service

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot

Women, Try, Themselves

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Aesop

Others, Comfort, Derive

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Faithful, Parent, Misfortune

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
Keith Richards

Music, Marriage, Found

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
Mitch Albom

Happen, Against, Getting

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
Gustave Flaubert

Art, Yourself, Nothing

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
Dennis Rodman

Women, Black, Makes

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
Mick Jagger

Mother, Rather, She

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

Fear, Words, Big

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

Another, Few, Childhood

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Brigitte Bardot

Famous, Beautiful, Happy

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
Willie Nelson

Nothing, Everything, Made

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein

Childhood, Communists, Fancied

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.
Demi Lovato

Control, Trying, Emotions

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
Jean de la Bruyere

Life, Happy, Pretty

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