Unhappy Person Quotes

• Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Unhappiness, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.261, Bantam

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• What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

  John Green

  Hipster, Sadness, Alaska

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• The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Dream, Cheer

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

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• Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Insightful

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 31, 2012

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• 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

  Sarcastic, Mother, Father

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• If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Trying, Magician

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• To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

  Anthony Doerr

  People, Different, Ridiculous

  Anthony Doerr (2011). “Memory Wall: Stories”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Past, Persons, Unhappy

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• What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Music, Beautiful, Heart

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• If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Persons, Knows, Ifs

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.41, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the “Just fine, thank you, and how are you?” reply to the “How are you today?” The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.

  Paul Ekman

  People, Feelings, Care

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• Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

  James Dillehay

  Pain, Self, Suffering

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• I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Father, Long, Sick

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• It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

  Thomas Malthus

  Law, Suffering, Want

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.112, Penguin UK

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• What is wrong with enjoying yourself? What is wrong in being happy? If there is anything wrong it is always in your unhappiness, because an unhappy person creates ripples of unhappiness all around him. Be happy!

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Enjoy, Ripple

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• If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Happiness, Powerful, People

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.62, Penguin

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• The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Knowing, People, Imagination

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.55, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strength, Grief, Wonder

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• A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

  Milan Kundera

  Unbearable, Life Is, Persons

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

  David Mamet

  Dream, Drama, Ideas

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Women, Inspiration

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book edited by Abby Adams, November 1, 1989.

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• I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Honest, Wells

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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