Unhappy Quotes - Page 22

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

In real life, bad things happen and they're not funny, and then bad things happen and they can be funny. When you're unhappy you don't go an entire time without laughing. You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.

I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

I was desperately unhappy with it [Blade Runner]. I was compelled by contract to record five or six different versions of the narration, each of which was found wanting on a storytelling basis. The final version was something that I was completely unhappy with. The movie obviously has a very strong following, but it could have been more than a cult picture.

But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development.

Linus: What would you say you want most out of life, Charlie Brown? To be happy? CB: Oh, no. I don't expect that. I really don't. I just don't want to be unhappy!

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.

Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.

Alix [MacKenzie], on the other hand, found that her painting would translate much more readily into decoration, and she could play with the spacing and the intensity of imagery on the form in a way which I could not. So that when we established our pottery, I was most unhappy with my decoration.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.