Unhappy Quotes - Page 34

• If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

  Mark Twain

  God, People, Suffering

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Men, Humanity

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• The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

  Lucian

  Happiness, Night, Thinking

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• Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Years

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  It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

  Cary Grant

  Life, Hurt, Law

  "Love - That's All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About" by Sheilah Graham, www.carygrant.net. June 1964.

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• Don't be too much concerned about money, because that is the greatest distraction against happiness. And the irony of ironies is that people think they will be happy when they have money. Money has nothing to do with happiness. If you are happy and you have money, you can use it for happiness. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will use that money for more unhappiness. Because money is simply a neutral force.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Money, Thinking

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• I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

  Keith Moon

  Music, Twenties, Lasts

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• Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  War, Politics, Lasts

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sad, People, Behinds

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Great Happiness

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

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• You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Being Happy, Children, Book

  Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Business, Media

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• Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

  Aristotle

  Change, Blessed, Character

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• I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime. I feel very manic right now, but I'm confident where I am.

  Carly Pope

  Change, Real, Mushrooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

  Estelle Winwood

  Stars, Worry, Advice

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• I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.

  Stephen King

  Sleep, Happy Life, Night

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• Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Hope, Children, Believe

  "Parenting for Everyone". Book by Simon Soloveychik, 1989.

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• Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

  Eddie Barclay

  Being Happy, Unhappiness

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• If you get frustrated and unhappy with yourself, then there is going to be a problem. You have to laugh at yourself and laugh at your mechanism that is out of gear.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

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• Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

  Gertrude Stein

  Unhappy Childhood, People, Literature

  Quoted by Thornton Wilder in December 14-15, 1956, interview with Richard Goldstone. "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", 1958.

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• We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.

  Og Mandino

  Self Esteem, Believe, Miracle

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• We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, True Friend, Father

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

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• I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thinking

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• My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

  Paula Danziger

  Sarcastic, Mother, Father

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