Unhappy Quotes - Page 27

• A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

  Victor Hugo

  Girl, Children, Dolls

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• My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and spoke American. A lot of Americans are gay people, aren’t they? I know they didn’t invent gayness, because they say that was the Greeks. But they helped bring it back into fashion. Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: it disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century. Anyway, I didn’t know anything about gays, so I just presumed they were all unhappy and wanted to kill themselves.

  Nick Hornby

  Fashion, Gay, Hair

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies are slowed down at different rates. If Tolstoy had known this, would he have recognised the terrible untruth at the beginning of Anna Karenina? 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own particular way.' In fact it's the other way around. Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalisation. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Glasses, Air, People

  "Written on the Body". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1992.

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• His suspicion that he was not going in the right direction tortmented him more and more. At last he had the conviction that he would never go anywhere but in the wrong direction, to the very end of the handful of days that was left to him, unhappy moonstruck pilgrim, whose April was to be cut off short.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Cutting, Lasts, April

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• A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

  Milan Kundera

  Unhappy Person, Unbearable, Life Is

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.

  Kate Chopin

  Depression, Sorry, Struggle

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• The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.

  Nancy Mitford

  Believe, People, Married

  "Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie".

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• Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Lying, Thinking

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.255, Everyman's Library

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• Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Theatre, You Like It

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.622, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Thinking, People, Good Times

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Past, Men, Three

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• No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Inspiration

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.97, Da Capo Press

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• You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sick, Alive, Stuck

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

  Sherman Alexie

  Hate, Book, Boys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Pride, Mr Collins

  'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 20 (Mr Bennet)

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• Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

  Antonio Machado

  Travel, Time, Journey

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• No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Mistake, Smart

  "Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, books.google.ru. May 31, 2011.

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• He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lonely, Reading, School

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2017). “F. Scott Fitzgerald :This Side of Paradise followed by The Beautiful and Damned”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

  Ralph Ellison

  Needs, Territory, Feels

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.592, Vintage

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• A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Fool

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

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• She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

  Cornelia Funke

  Children, Chocolate, Letters

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.114, Scholastic Inc.

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• Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mouths, Lear

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.838

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• He smiled at that, and then his gaze shifted to a spot over my shoulder and it faded. 'These doubts wouldn’t have anything to do with the company you’re keeping of late, would they?' I didn’t get a chance to answer before the shop door was thrown open and a furious war mage stomped in. Pritkin spotted me and his eyes narrowed. 'You shaved my legs?!' Mircea looked at me and folded his arms across his chest. I looked from one unhappy face to the other and suddenly remembered that I had somewhere else to be.

  Karen Chance

  War, Eye, Doors

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1507, Penguin

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• People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Sight, People

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.42, Penguin

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• The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Opportunity, Suffering, Proud

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.114, Beacon Press

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