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• While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

  Kate Morton

  People, Enough, Type

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

  Nick Hornby

  Song, People, Listening

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

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• This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with depression is that it's such a self-centered illness - Dostoevsky shows that pretty good in his "Notes from Underground". The depression is painful, you're sapped/consumed by yourself; the worse the depression, the more you just think about yourself and the stranger and repellent you appear to others.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Translation of the Zeit Online interview, www.thehowlingfantods.com. January 26, 2007.

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• I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over

  Steig Larsson

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Love You

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• Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by 'tolerantly amused eyes' was years away from me. I don't think I really saw people then, except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understood, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

  Doris Lessing

  Attitude, Confused, Eye

  "The Golden Notebook". Book by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. 1962.

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• It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think of it. Two people may in the same place doing the same thing, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude.

  Dale Carnegie

  Attitude, Thinking, Two

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• Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.

  Nora Roberts

  Morning, Thinking, Jumping

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• It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!

  Noel Fielding

  Ponchos, Impossible

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• I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Summer, Winter, Would Be

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

  Umberto Eco

  Sleep, Flesh, Want

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Fear, Lying

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• I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

  Ann Aguirre

  Thinking, People, Want

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Doubleblind”, p.97, Penguin

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• You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the child of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better than average marriage yourself – either through some genetic inheritance or because you’d learnt from example? But it doesn’t seem to work like that. So perhaps you need the opposite example – to see mistakes in order not to make them yourself. Except this would mean that the best way for parents to ensure their children have happy marriages would be to have unhappy ones themselves. So what’s the answer?

  Julian Barnes

  Children, Mistake, Mean

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• Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying, his unhappiness. He’d put a lot of energy into it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Envy, Energy

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• I'd rather be alone than unhappy

  Whitney Houston

  Song: It's Not Right but It's Okay, 1998

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• No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It wears on a man's confidence.

  Tessa Dare

  Men, Faces, Propose

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• Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people

  Jonathan Franzen

  Country, Using People, Heart

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.548, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

  Kate Morton

  People, Knows

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Advice, Up To You, Trust Yourself

  "The Best of Me". Chapter 15, p. 223. Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.

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• It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Happiness, Happy, Being Yourself

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.204, Penguin

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• We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Insane, Reason, Can Do

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.307, Zola Books

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• I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Purpose, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

  Jodi Picoult

  Convincing Yourself, Differences, Make You Happy

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mom, Mean, Two

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.184, Three Rivers Press

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• This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

  Douglas Adams

  You Make Me Happy, People, Hitchhiking

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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