Unhappy Quotes - Page 18

• The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

  Erich Fromm

  Differences, Giving, Joy

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• Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

  Epicurus

  Men, Thinking, World

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• Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

  Deepak Chopra

  Vanity, Doors, Stubborn

  Deepak Chopra (1996). “The Return of Merlin”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Mean, Artist, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.

  Paul Auster

  Ideas, Film, Results

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• As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

  Etgar Keret

  Children, Parent, Wanted

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character. My area was what they gave me to do.

  David Rasche

  Writing, Character, Shows

  "Sledge Hammer! star David Rasche on the fun of puncturing American gun culture". Interview with John Teti, tv.avclub.com. January 16, 2016.

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• I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn to write in writing courses.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Writing, Matter, Figures

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body of an unfortunate sibling, or with a fellow family member, and you end up even unconsciously rejoicing in the other person's unhappiness and being like, I am happy because I can see how unhappy these other people are.

  Marco Roth

  Revenge, Sibling, Climbing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Never compromise and sell yourself short. I've been in the music business, a girl group . . . I've been through so many different things in my career, and when you compromise and try to let go of who you are, you wind up being unhappy, and what is success without happiness. You have to have both, and that is important to me.

  Naturi Naughton

  Girl, Letting Go, Wind

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• In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in her own writing, she's very warm about her grandmother, even though, if you look at contemporary accounts, they're accounts of horror at the Dickensian scene that Tivoli represents: bleak and drear and dark and unhappy. But Eleanor Roosevelt in her own writings is not very unhappy about Tivoli.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Writing, Grandmother, Dark

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is, when they were very young, she was not a good mother. She was an unhappy mother. She was an unhappy wife. She had never known what it was to be a good mother. She didn't have a good mother of her own. And so there's a kind of parenting that doesn't happen.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Two, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what a fun-loving guy Dad was, and how brooding and unhappy Mom was. The children sort of blame it all on the mother. Well, this is kind of standard and typical, and aggrieved Eleanor Roosevelt that she was not a happier mother. She wanted to be a happier mother. And I must say, she was a happier grandmother.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you try to shut down your angel guidance, that's the path to feeling unhappy and results in addiction.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Addiction, Feelings

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• You can use the [Barack] Obama administration as a recent example. For seven years they've been unopposed. The Republican Party's not trying to stop 'em on a single thing. Much of Obama's agenda has been a success. He has been able to attack various traditions, institutions, and taken over the health care system in this country. They've taken over the student loan, they've taken over the education system, and everybody in it is miserable and unhappy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Party, Taken

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.

  George Carlin

  Dream, People, Wish

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• Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.

  David O. Russell

  Happy Endings, Unhappy Endings

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I’ve had unsatisfying experiences, but mostly it’s about communication, which is why I make an effort to talk to the director beforehand to make sure we see eye-to-eye as creative individuals. If [good] communication isn’t present, you can lose something and end up very unhappy.

  Martin Starr

  Communication, Eye, Effort

  "Martin Starr’s Star Turn". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Bullies are ultimately unhappy people who try to inflict pain and hate on others and are to be pitied. Once you realize that, their words can no longer hurt you.

  Frankie J. Grande

  Hurt, Pain, Hate

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• When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Character, Looks, Kind

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.

  John Darnielle

  Impossible, Emotion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If I weren't acting I'd be a very unhappy, unfulfilled woman.

  Michael Hyatt

  Acting, Ifs

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I just feel like why spend all my time doing something that makes me unhappy just to spend my time off thinking about how I have to go back to a job. It's such a vicious cycle that people get stuck in. But I'm also very lucky. I can't sit here too eagerly and say all that.

  Justin Vernon

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."

  J. K. Rowling

  Simple, Emotion, Poor

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare.

  Shelby Harris

  Definitions, Emotion, Scared

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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