Unhappy Quotes - Page 10

• Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

  Nora Ephron

  Home, Night, Enough Time

  Nora Ephron (1991). “Nora Ephron Collected”

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• The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

  Rebecca West

  Children, Divorce, Men

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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• Unhappy people are dangerous.

  Rebecca West

  People, Unhappiness, Dangerous

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.231, Open Road Media

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• Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Affair, Enjoy, Overrated

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.

  Lillian Hellman

  Children, Pain, Memories

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• Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

  Madame de Stael

  Heartbreak, Soul, Affection

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

  Peace Pilgrim

  Unhappy Person, Persons, Knows

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

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• Don't appeal to mercy to God the Father up in the sky, little man, because he's not at home and never was at home, and couldn't care less. What you do with yourself, whether you are happy or unhappy- live or die- is strictly your business and the universe doesn't care. In fact you may be the universe and the only cause of all your troubles. But, at best, the most you can hope for is comradeship with comrades no more divine (or just as divine) as you are. So quit sniveling and face up to it- 'Thou art God!'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Father, Home

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• When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive.

  Esther Hicks

  Feelings, Desire, Done

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• If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded research like I have, if I've raised millions of dollars like I have, and yet there was one patient out there who was unhappy, I think it's a price that you pay. The good would overcome that one bit of bad.

  Charles Teo

  Thinking, Brain, Having Fun

  "Dr Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2011.

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• There's a lot of unrest. There are a lot of people who are unhappy. I don't want to say I'm their hero, but a lot of people have said that... It's like this in every job, I think. There's certain people who are afforded privileges and maybe, maybe don't deserve them.

  CM Punk

  Jobs, Hero, Thinking

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

  Margaret Deland

  Crazy, Sanity, Sane

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.266, Wildside Press LLC

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• nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

  George Sand

  Sweet, Nature, Stars

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• A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

  Carrie Fisher

  Smart, Enough

  Carrie Fisher (2005). “The Best Awful: A Novel”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Long, Experience

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• The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Disappointment, Children, People

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.209, First Avenue Editions

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• For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Book, Long, Interesting

  Selma Lagerlöf (1975). “Memories of my childhood: further years at Mårbacka”, Kraus Reprint. Co.

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• I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Kindness, Quality, Use

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• Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

  Alice James

  People, Way, Strange

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• [On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Beautiful, Cities, Paris

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• When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.

  Winifred Holtby

  Pain, Love Is, Missing

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Unhappiness, Should

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• I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.

  Bessie Head

  Mean, Light, Sky

  Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

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• Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

  Anne Roiphe

  Thinking, People, Happy Marriage

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• So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

  Lillian Russell

  Marriage, Firsts, Neighbor

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