Unhappy Quotes

Nobody can make you happy or unhappy except you.

~ Debasish Mridha

And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little unhappy himself. He began to wonder if he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious.

~ François Lelord

I'm not the type of guy that will make you happy. I'm the type of guy that will make you forget how unhappy we all are.

~ James Karrigan

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time

~ David Levithan

At first happiness might seem like just desserts for biological fitness (more accurately, the states that would have led to fitness in the environment in which we evolved). We are happier when we are healthy, well-fed, comfortable, safe, prosperous, knowledgeable, respected, non-celibate, and loved. Compared to their opposites, these objects of striving are conducive to reproduction. The function of happiness would be to mobilize the mind to seek the keys to Darwinian fitness. When we are unhappy, we work for the things that make us happy; when we are happy, we keep the status quo. The problem is, how much fitness is worth striving for?

~ Steven Pinker

All of us are in the manufacturing industry - manufacturing either our own happiness or unhappiness.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, the hours when he felt the very walls and ceilings were encrusted with the distress of of unhappy decades

~ Rohinton Mistry

Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a novelist. He had said “an unhappy childhood.” Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he wondered if this whole expedition was unfolding more like a novel, and would be blamed on one person, one character, the guy in charge: him. Maybe you got a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that’s how novels worked.

~ Gregory Benford

There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied—who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy.  It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back.  Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy.  And you cannot make them so.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.

~ Anthony Liccione

Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.

~ Alice Hoffman

I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died.

~ Anthony Liccione

When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted up and down beside her pool, restless and unhappy. Unicorns are not meant to make choices. She said no, and yes, and no again, day and night, and for the first time she began to feel the minutes crawling over her like worms.

~ Peter S. Beagle

I can't blame them, but I don't join in their sentiments. People can be very crazy when they are unhappy and heart-sore

~ Mina Marial Nicoli

Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.

~ Seneca

Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?

~ Debasish Mridha

Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.

~ Anton Chekhov

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

~ Ann Brashares

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

~ James M. Barrie

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

~ Loretta Lynn

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

~ Mark Twain

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

~ Joseph Roux

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

~ Dennis Rodman

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

~ James Joyce

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

~ George Orwell

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

~ Christina Aguilera

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

~ Publilius Syrus

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

~ Abraham Maslow

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

~ Dennis Prager