Unhappy Quotes - Page 28

• Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Important, Needs

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.65, Psychology Press

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• The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Tired, Mean, Secret

  Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"

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• I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

  Albert Camus

  Giving Up, Ambition, Upset

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• I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, People, Personality

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• right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Positive, Happiness, Remember

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

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• He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.

  J. D. Salinger

  Eye, Boys, Two

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• Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Want, Brown, Charlie

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• There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

  Blaise Pascal

  People, Three, Firsts

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• I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If I'm going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I'm happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I feel highs so ecstatic that just being normal feels like a thousand-mile drop and being unhappy is excruciating.

  Emma Forrest

  Girl, Dancing, Want

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him...to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good.

  Brian Jacques

  Naughty, Thinking, Blame

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• Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lovers, Rejected, Expenses

  Patrick O'Brian (1991). “H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Mean, Self

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.36, Ignatius Press

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• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspiring, Dog, Food

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• I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.

  Muriel Barbery

  Self, Mad, Way

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• Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Mean, Sleep

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• When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hard Work, Helping Others, Opportunity

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• If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?

  Janet Fitch

  Suffering, Ifs, Wounds

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• (An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Discrepancies Between, Unhappy Childhood, Preparation

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• Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Men, Drunk, Cups

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.17, Powell Publications, LLC

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• We are all carousers and loose women here; How unhappy we are together!

  Anna Akhmatova

  Together, Loose Women

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• When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Morning, Heart, Thinking

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.151, A&C Black

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• THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn--or worse, indifference--cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Pride, Blow, Men

  Jed Rubenfeld (2008). “The Interpretation of Murder”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Unhappy failures need not apply.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Needs

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Memories, Sadness, Childhood

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key”, H. P. Lovecraft

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• ‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Girl, Soul, Said

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.560, BookCaps Study Guides

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