Unhappy Quotes - Page 38

• Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

  Willie Nelson

  Hurt, Hippie, Redneck

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• Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I'm unhappy. Then it's a miserable existence. I'm putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn't do anything, I feel so ashamed. I'm afraid I'll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn't. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Differences, Expectations, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

  Jeff Daniels

  Drama, Add, Pretending

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• I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

  Chaka Khan

  Mean, Want, Stills

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• God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.

  Douglas Wilson

  Ungrateful People, Heart, Thinking

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• And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.

  Priscilla Presley

  Believe, Believe In Me

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• It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

  Janis Joplin

  Feelings, Soul, Want

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• I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

  Tommy Kirk

  Teenage, Years, Teenage Years

  "Disney Kids Have Been Getting Naked and Taking Drugs for Over Half a Century, and Here's the Proof!". Interview, moviepilot.com. January 29, 2015.

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• Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it?

  Paul McCrane

  Being Unhappy

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• They say that to be a writer you must first have an unhappy childhood. I don't know if unhappiness is necessary, but I think maybe some children who have suffered a loss too great for words grow up into writers who are always trying to find those words, trying to find a meaning for the way they have lived

  Cynthia Rylant

  Children, Growing Up, Loss

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• Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Giving, Imaginary, Bounds

  H. W.L. Poonja (2007). “Wake Up and Roar”, p.35, Sounds True

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• There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

  Dan Harris

  Being Unhappy, Can't Change, No Point

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• London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Women, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.24, OUP Oxford

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• He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Happiness, Oysters, Asparagus

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

  Norm MacDonald

  Ambition, Energy, Littles

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• I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.325, Penguin UK

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• Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.

  Vernon Howard

  Happiness, Liberty

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• Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

  Gwen Ifill

  Starting Over, Office, Movement

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• Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot get into the line for which he is fitted.

  George L. Brown

  Life, Business, Men

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• When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

  Epictetus

  Men, Suffering, Imagine

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• Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

  Boethius

  Balance, Passing Away, Comfort

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

  Edward Abbey

  Buzzards, Mexico, Life Is

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Two Sides, Giving

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.29, Hamilton Books

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• Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Might, Facts, Unhappiness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

  Karl Marx

  Mind, Energy, Doe

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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