Unhappy Quotes - Page 33

• I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage

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• Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy ending.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sadness, Mean, Evil

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Unhappy Person, Knowing, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.55, Westminster John Knox Press

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• That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I don’t want you to think I forgot.

  David Levithan

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Thinking, Bed

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• The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Soul, Said

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.709, BookCaps Study Guides

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• always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself

  John Gray

  Nice, Distance, Weather

  John Gray (2012). “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

  Nora Roberts

  Make You Happy, Wells, Ifs

  Nora Roberts (1994). “Born in Fire”, p.237, Penguin

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• I’ve been happy alone and I’ve been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.

  Nora Roberts

  Love You, Care, Without You

  Nora Roberts (1994). “Born in Fire”, p.237, Penguin

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• Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Regret, Believe

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.114, Vintage

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• When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Muffins, Trouble, Moments

  Oscar Wilde (1956). “Annotated The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People with English Grammar Exercises: by Oscar Wilde (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.72, Powell Publications, LLC

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• He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have to keep a conversation going with yourself throughout your life to see how you're doing, to keep your focus, to remain your own friend. He told me that he talked to himself all the time, and that it helped him to grow stronger and better everyday.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  People, Focus, Everyday

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “The Last American Man”, p.201, A&C Black

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• ...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Two, Getting What You Want, Way

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2008.

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• What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Fear, Silly, Men

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• I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Funny Things

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• And broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my soul, Jem. I could not be happy while you were unhappy. And Tessa—she loves you. What sort of awful monster would I be, delighting in causing the two people I love the most in the world agony simply that I might have the satisfaction of knowing that if Tessa could not be mine, she could not be anybody’s?

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Heart, Agony

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• It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Waiting, Matter, Wave

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

  Ira Levin

  Thinking, Knowing, Important

  Ira Levin (2011). “This Perfect Day”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Brain, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.81, Vintage

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• It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.

  Susane Colasanti

  Challenges, Tests, Too Much

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• Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

  Gaston Leroux

  People, Not Sure, Christine

  Gaston Leroux (2015). “The Phantom of the Opera: Horror and Romance”, p.109, 谷月社

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• Everything all right, Gwyneth?” asked Gideon, raising one eyebrow. “You look nervous. Would you like a cigarette to calm your nerves? What was your favorite brand, did you say? Marlboros?” I could only stare at him speechlessly. “Leave her alone,” said Xemerius. “Can’t you see she’s unhappy in love, bonehead? All because of you! What are you doing here, anyway?

  Kerstin Gier

  Eyebrows, Gideon, Nerves

  Kerstin Gier (2012). “Sapphire Blue”, p.215, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

  Rachel Klein

  Girl, Sight, Blood

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• All men want their whores to be unhappy.

  Eleanor Catton

  Men, Want

  Eleanor Catton (2013). “The Luminaries”, p.189, Granta Books

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• Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Children, Lying

  'Come not, when I am dead' (1850)

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• Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit!
  How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Time, Hours

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