Unhappy Life Quotes

• The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

  Juvenal

  Girl, Gay, Happy Life

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• Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Life, Good Morning, Happy

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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  I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

  Lauren Oliver

  Happiness, Bad Day, Happy Times

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Reality

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

  Christopher McCandless

  Men, Reality, Adventurous Life

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Letter to Russell Fritz, April 1992.

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventurous Life, New Experiences, Monotonous Life

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Men

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 135-137), 2013.

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Aron Ralston

  Passion, Adventure, Reality

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• ...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Adventurous Life, New Experiences

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• If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Worst Enemy, Suffering, Unhappy

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.

  Byron Katie

  Happy Life, Mind, Unhappy

  Twitter post from Nov 16, 2012

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• Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Happy Life, Thinking, Unhappy

  Stephen R. Lawhead (2013). “The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2”, p.191, Lion Fiction

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• An unhappy life is a life not lived.

  Dennis Prager

  Happy Life, Unhappy, Life Is

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• The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

  Nick Hornby

  Song, People, Listening

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

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• I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.

  Stephen King

  Sleep, Happy Life, Night

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• A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

  Michael Josephson

  Happy Life, Goal, Unhappy

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• The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

  Michael Pollan

  Happy Life, Thinking, Unhappy

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.39, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Unhappy, Trying, Depth

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• We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

  Richard Rohr

  Happy Life, Imperfect Things, Unhappy

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• If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.

  Cesar Chavez

  Giving Up, Happy Life, Animal

  "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals". Book by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, October 31, 2003.

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