Unhappy Quotes - Page 29

• Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, World, Matter

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.86, Penguin

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• Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.

  L. Frank Baum

  Girl, Land, Kansas

  L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Ned Halley (2009). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.105, Collector's Library

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• I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

  L. Frank Baum

  Relationship, Heartbreak, Thinking

  L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Ned Halley (2009). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.132, Collector's Library

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• What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Mad, Wish, Vain

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1297, Delphi Classics

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• He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Brother, Ocean

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.14, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Funny, Children, Teaching

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Unhappy Childhood, Training, Mice

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1087, Simon and Schuster

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• It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

  E. M. Forster

  Unbearable

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Worst Enemy, Suffering, Faults

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Determination, People, Freak

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• It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?

  Anais Nin

  Thinking, Ideas, Silence

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• She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Memories, Believe

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.29, Penguin

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• I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Memories, Lying, Hair

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Children, Anxious, Ifs

  Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.209, Penguin

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• Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.2791, e-artnow

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• If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Focus, Simplicity, Looks

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• What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Use, World, Reason

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.547, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

  Charles Dickens

  Evil, Ends

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.308, Prestwick House Inc

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• In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.

  Chuck Klosterman

  New York, People, Work Out

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

  Frederick Douglass

  Song, Heart, Sorrow

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.24, Library of America

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• Sometimes our celebrations of notable occurrences seem to take on earthly color, and we do not fully realize the significance of the reason for the celebration. This is true of Christmas, when too often we celebrate the holiday rather than the deep significance of the birth and resurrection of the Lord. They must be unhappy indeed who ignore the godship of Christ, the sonship of the Master.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Holiday, Color, Notable

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• in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

  Alexandre Dumas

  Prayer, Heaven, Sublime

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.158, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Joy, Trying

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• What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

  Cornelia Funke

  Real, People, World

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• I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Believe, Grateful, Sadness

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