Unhappy Quotes - Page 28

I was unhappy with the jobs I did after law. I got into the diplomatic service. There again I had really little to do.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.

Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept the fact. Complaint occurs when we refuse to accept that things are wrong and we do something about it, even if that something is simply articulating our unease.

The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

The more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

Hollywood - it's either people who are unhappy or soon will be.

I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.

He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.

I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

My wife is really unhappy with my agent. But I'm the big winner.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.