Unhappy Quotes - Page 9

If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

When I was 19, I was in a horrific car accident, and it taught me that at the end of our life, we ask all these questions. And my questions, I discovered, were: Did I really live my life? Did I love? Did I matter? And I was unhappy with the answers.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.

After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.

Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.

It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do!

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.

It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.