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Unhappy Quotes - Page 11

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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

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

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

Samuel Beckett (2007). “Ends and Odds”, p.65, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

Oscar Wilde (1956). “Annotated The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People with English Grammar Exercises: by Oscar Wilde (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.72, Powell Publications, LLC