No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.
Moss Hart

None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Edward Young

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
Ian Hart

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
Mary Austin

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
Amy Tan

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
John Le Carre

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

Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
Robin Wright Penn

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
Blake Edwards

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Wayne Dyer

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

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.
Debbie Harry

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
Anne Tyler

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Aesop