Unhappy Quotes - 4
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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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More Unhappy Quotes
It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
— 1776 Remark,7 Apr. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.
One canbe unhappy before eating caviar, evenafter, but at least not during.
Irving Kristol— 1979 In Newsweek, 26 Nov.
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius— Book II, section 4, line 4
People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we’d have to help make it thunder.
georg büchner— Scene VI (Woyzeck (1879))
When you are angry, it means you, yourself are unhappy. Even if you are wronged, you are still making yourself unhappy if you feel anger.
michio kushi— p. 41 (Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994, with Edward Esko))
What is so painful about that time is that nothing was disastrous. It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.
doris lessing— Anna Wulf, in "Free Women: 1"
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
saki— "The Match-Maker"
The odds on any intelligent person having an unhappy childhood are better than fair, and the odds on a sad ending are practically off the board.
wilfrid sheed— "The Wit of George S. Kaufman and Dorothy Parker" (1973) p. 159
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-28), Satire.
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
joseph addison— No. 73 (24 May 1711).
Who would waste tears upon her? Is she not The least of our losses, this unhappy wife? Yet in my heart she will not be forgot Who, for a single glance, gave up her life.
anna akhmatova— Translator unknown
The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.
nat friedman— August 6, 2002 blog entry (2002-08-06). Retrieved on 2006-08-22.
Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.
james anthony froude— Arthur's commentary
Identify the things and people that make you feel unhappy and eliminate them from your life. Nothing good can come from them.
steve maraboli— p. 80 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.
marcus aurelius— VIII, 48. (Book VIII)
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— Estranged Labour, p. 30
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
George Bernard Shaw— #110. (Maxims for Revolutionists (1903))
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
edith sitwell— As quoted in An Uncommon Scold (1989) by Abby Adams, p. 226
I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.
— Woody Allen, interview in "Interview with Woody Allen: 'Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker'" by Helene Zuber, in Der Spiegel (20 June 2005)
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, an Address to the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge (July 15, 1838).
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
friedrich nietzsche— German philosopher
There is, in fact, an element of sour grapes in Stoicism. We can't be happy, but we can be good; let us therefore pretend that, so long as we are good, it doesn't matter being unhappy. This doctrine is heroic, and, in a bad world, useful; but it is neither quite true nor, in a fundamental sense, quite sincere.
— Bertrand Russell, in A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book One, Part III, Chapter XXVIII, Stoicism, p. 269
I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. [...] Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
— Original: Irrita-me a felicidade de todos estes homens que não sabem que são infelizes.[...] Por isto, contudo, amo-os a todos. Meus queridos vegetais!
— Ibid., p. 266
Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is not shaken, at some time in the year, by "old, unhappy, far-off things / And battles long ago", like Wordsworth's solitary reaper. We are a nation of immigrants, and not happy in our minds.
Robertson Davies— Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks.
Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself. O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers, What hides the body oft the mind discovers.
john keats— John Keats, Epigrams, Clothes.
This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
— Douglas Adams, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Introduction
Indeed, faithful is the one who - when pleased and glad, his pleasure does not make him enter into sin and falsehood; and when unhappy and angry, his anger does not oust him from the world of righteousness; and when he gains power, his power does not make him commit excess, nor opression, nor make him go for a thing upon which he does not have any right.
— Muhammad Kulayni, Us?l al-K?f?, vol.2, p.234
A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now? Lord help 'em, how I pities them unhappy folks on shore, now.
— Charles Dibden, Sailor's Consolation. Attributed to Pitt (song writer) and Hood.
unhappy it is though to reflect, that a Brother's Sword has been sheathed in a Brother's breast, and that, the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous Man hesitate in his choice?
— George Washington, letter to George William Fairfax (31 May 1775).
