Unhappy Quotes - Page 2

• Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Horse, Hard Times

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• There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Happy, People

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.103, Book Tree

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• Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Sympathy, Condolences, Compassion

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• I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

  Franz Kafka

  Depression, Feelings, Feeling Lost

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

  Mitch Albom

  Reality, Getting Older, Atheism

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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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 plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Expectations, Planning

  As quoted in "Perfecting Private Practice" by Joan Neehall-Davidson, (p. 95), 2004.

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• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

  Red Skelton

  Happiness, Laughter, Sadness

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• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Nwo

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• Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Mortals

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• Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Sensitive Person, Giving

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• You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Being Happy, Kind, Working It

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Loneliness

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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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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• What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.

  Anthony Holden

  Space, Giving, Feelings

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• It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.111, BookBaby

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• All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

  Morrie Schwartz

  People, Getting Older, Should

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• If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

  Marc Andreessen

  Should, Ifs

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• Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Confidence

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.185, Lulu.com

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• It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

  Thomas Huxley

  Things In Life, People, Trying

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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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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• When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Happiness, Doubt, Unhappiness

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• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Nwo

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• You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Thinking, Sea

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