Unhappy Quotes - Page 24

• What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

  Colin Powell

  Wall, Thinking, People

  "Colin Powell: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations Are ‘As American As Apple Pie’". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

  Dennis Prager

  Complaining, Ruins, Wise Words

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Dec 16, 2013

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• We become moral when we are unhappy.

  Marcel Proust

  Moral, Unhappiness

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• I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

  Keith Richards

  Marriage, Atheism, Video

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• I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, White, People

  "Bad As I Wanna Be". Book by Dennis Rodman, 1996.

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• Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom.

  Rumi

  Should, Sufism, Life Love And Happiness

  "The Rumi Collection".

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• Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Sleep, Math

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1

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• I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

  Marat Safin

  Waste, Moments, I Can

  "Safin tries to hold serve with emotions, career". usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2005.

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• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

  J. D. Salinger

  Artist, Would Be, Literature

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

  George Santayana

  Marriage, Patience, Appreciate

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 2, ch. 2

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• I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

  Jill Scott

  Diversity, Creative, Needs

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• If I feel really ugly or unhappy, sometimes I'll choose bright colors so they'll make me feel good. Yellows, pinks, light blues and orange. I just want to feel good all the time if I can. And colors and hairstyles and all that kind of helps out.

  Jill Scott

  Light, Color, Orange

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• I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Beautiful, Suicidal, Play

  "Chloe Sevigny: the interview" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Looks, Billionaire

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• When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

  Paul Simon

  Betrayal, Records, Made

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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 barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "NBC's Guthrie Chats With Sotomayor About Her Love Life in Softball Interview". Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.

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• Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Would Be, Mysterious

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

  Rod Stewart

  Beautiful, World, Stills

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• There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

  Bram Stoker

  Teaching, Past, Ghouls

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.203, Zillmann Publishing

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• I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Exciting, Horrible

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• I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Order, Turmoil

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• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Responsibility, Three, Want

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.82, New World Library

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• I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

  Thornton Wilder

  Unhappy Childhood, Atheism, Essentials

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Happiness, Men, World

  Woodrow Wilson (1974). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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