Quotes with unhappy

  • People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
  • Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
  • London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
  • Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
  • 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.
  • Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
  • Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
  • You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.
  • There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
  • But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Leo Tolstoy All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • George Orwell No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Addison There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • John Galsworthy A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Andrea: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.
    Galileo: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.
    Life of Galileo Scene 12, p. 115
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Beatrice Wood But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Socrates Call no man unhappy until he is married.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Gertrude Stein Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Dale Carnegie Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry.''
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Louis XIV Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
    Louis XIV
    French king, also called Sun King (1638 - 1715)
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  • Boethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Gloria Steinem Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Tad Williams He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
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  • Saki He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • Thornton Wilder I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Whoopi Goldberg I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.
    Whoopi Goldberg
    American actress, comedian, author and television personality (1955 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche 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
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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