It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Groucho Marx

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Marilyn Monroe

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.
Jenny Agutter

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.
John Hickenlooper

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Red Skelton

Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.
Russell Simmons

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
Herodotus

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
Eddie Barclay

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.
Lester Bangs

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

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
Anne Stevenson

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.
Paula Danziger