Top 363 Unhappy Quotes

A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.

The unhappy irony is that, while ‘Glee’ is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

I’m less crazy and unhappy when I’m writing.

When you’re writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don’t you think?

It’s not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

OCD is a really serious condition – it’s a proper thing. It’s not just, ‘Oh, you like your pens to be straight’. For me, it would always go in tandem with being unhappy. The unhappier I was, the worse it got.

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.

A lot of people love what I do and a lot of people don’t like or hate my style, so it’s external – I really don’t care about that. I’m happy with the people that appreciate it, but I’m not unhappy with the people that don’t like it.

In 2012 I hit a low in terms of confidence, enjoyment of the game, and I felt very negative and unhappy.

I know during my transition it was difficult for me to stop believing I would be stuck unhappy forever, but that’s not true. Physical changes take a while but internal feelings of changing and finding your peace can take way longer.

I am not scared while I am in Uttar Pradesh. But after BSP got an absolute majority there and began making inroads in other states, the other parties got unhappy. That’s why they keep telling me to stay in U.P. where I have my own Government and I can be safe.

I’ve at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, ‘I would give anything for this not to be happening.’ And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, ‘I’m kind of glad that happened to me.’

For years I thought of many other people. As we all do. But we should all step back and say, ‘What’s making me unhappy? What’s not working for me? What can I take out for a bit and take out long-term that will help me a bit?’

There are people who are unhappy with everything.

My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.

I’m very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

I can’t imagine a world where I wouldn’t have the means of expression. When I talk to people who don’t, it seems like they’re really unhappy.

Sometimes you don’t realize how unhappy you are in a situation until you are out of it, because it’s just kind of day-to-day life.

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

I’ve always been suspicious of TV, I’ve always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

My parents have always said, ‘You’ll be so unhappy if you’re no more than your career, that it’s important to get out there and do things other than just your career.’

I chose to start Schwarzman Scholars because I saw the potential for the world to become focused and unhappy with China, in large part because of the populism that was growing throughout the world.

I’m somebody who is really unhappy if I don’t play.

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It’s not who we are.

It is hard to be unhappy in a gay bar where everyone’s singing show tunes! In fact, I’ve spent many a night in those kind of places – in that particular place, actually – Marie’s Crisis: it’s truly a New York establishment.

People pay little attention to banner ads – in fact, everyone dislikes them – and that leads to infinitesimally small click-through rates that make marketers unhappy.

I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they’re probably less likely to achieve it.

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn’t try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40’s and I’d be really unhappy that I hadn’t.

I don’t pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

With ‘More Than Words,’ we wrote that, so we are that. I’m just happy people can connect with any of our songs. If that song opened the floodgates for us to be able to tour the world over and over, how could I be unhappy with that?

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I’m not interested in being unhappy.

In every club, 11 players are happy and the others unhappy. This is correct because if one player doesn’t play and is happy, he’s crazy.

I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.

There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that’s the least objectionable to them. They’re not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they’ll go to bed unhappy.

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won’t buy it; they’ll be unhappy.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Life is too short to be unhappy.

The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

It really is ironic that the saddest I’d ever been was when I had ‘achieved’ all the things I had wanted. I was so disgustingly thin, but I was so unhappy.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything… whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren’t all sweetness and light. They don’t behave well when they are unhappy. That’s just what I’ve observed.

I always say I’d rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?