Unhappy Quotes - Page 12

• The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Self, Want

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• The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

  Louise Hay

  Suffering, Miserable

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• If you're consumed only with the big dream, you're going to die because you won't be able to feed yourself or you're going to be losing your job, so you'll just be sitting in your room dreaming, but if you're only holding onto the crap jobs that keep you just above of the water you're going to be unhappy. You're going to be burnt out, washed out.

  Robert Greene

  Dream, Jobs, Water

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Cheerful, World

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.279, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, Views, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1951). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 18 June, 1779 to 30 September, 1780”

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• It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Jobs, People, Meat

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause,
  With eloquence that's bought.

  Ovid

  Causes, Prisoner, Eloquence

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• The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.

  Herman Melville

  Civilization, Race, Earth

  Herman Melville (1982). “Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi”, p.230, Library of America

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• Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

  Mason Cooley

  Knowledge, Men, Would Be

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• We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Real, Vanity

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• Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

  Red Skelton

  Laughter, Sadness, Situation

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• One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil thoughts pile right on top of happier and generous ones and smother them so that they never get expression. Resentments are a form of hate.... What a dearth of good will and co-operation there are among human beings and nations! What a world this would be if we all worked together, and as a popular diplomat recently expressed it-played together!

  George Matthew Adams

  Hate, Expression, Knowing

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• The unhappy never want enemies.

  Samuel Richardson

  Adversity, Enemy, Want

  Samuel Richardson (1793). “Clarissa Harlowe or the History of a Young Lady (Complete)”, p.3848, Library of Alexandria

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• Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

  Penelope Leach

  Family, Children, Kids

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• I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.

  Edna O'Brien

  Sleep, Men, Dating

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• I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of complexity, they would prefer it if the world were very simple, but then it would be a doom for a cryptographer like myself.

  Adi Shamir

  Science, Simple, Thinking

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• Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I cannot afford to have. I don't see how people ever have money enough to live here.

  Dorothy Gish

  New York, People, Want

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• People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

  Sue Grafton

  Happiness, Grief, Unhappy Childhood

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• In real life, bad things happen and they're not funny, and then bad things happen and they can be funny. When you're unhappy you don't go an entire time without laughing. You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Real, Laughing, Whole Life

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• I was raised to think about philosophy and religious thought and the soul and the spirit of humankind in a different way, also really socially progressive teachings of the Baha'i faith, the equality of men and women, the elimination of racial prejudice, the equality of science and religion, so it was a big cauldron of big ideas in my household. And we were weird and unhappy family, but nonetheless that was a really positive thing that came out of it.

  Rainn Wilson

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."

  Tom Hanks

  Wake Up, Disaster, Crisis

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts LARRY CROWNE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 28, 2011.

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• If we start worrying whether our nose is too big or too small, we should think, “What if I had no head? - now that would be a problem!” As long as we have life, we should rejoice. If everything doesn't go exactly as we'd like, we can accept it. If we contemplate impermanence deeply, patience and compassion will arise. We will hold less to the apparent truth of our experience, and the mind will become more flexible. Realizing that one day this body will be buried or burned, we will rejoice in every moment we have rather than make ourselves or others unhappy.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Thinking, Compassion, Worry

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• This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happy, Mother, Children

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• The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

  Mason Cooley

  Unhappiness, Prisoner, Rounds

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• Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Woven, Happy Marriage

  "War Within and Without". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1980.

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