Top 363 Unhappy Quotes

Listen, the guy was not created by coverage from MSNBC and CNN. If you want to blame us for making Donald Trump president because you’re unhappy about it, I think you are deluding yourself. Donald Trump hit a nerve.
Katy Tur
I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.
Ashley Jensen
If you’re unhappy, you can’t make anything.
Mae Martin
If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.
Lando Norris
If you want to be a real human being – a real woman, a real man – you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, ‘Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.’
Stephane Hessel
You’re meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there’s a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.
Emma Donoghue
I’m a big believer that if you’re happy and your employees are happy, your customers are going to be happy. If you’re unhappy and your employees are unhappy, there’s no way your customers are going to be happy.
Marcus Lemonis
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ‘Let no one be called happy till his death;’ to which I would add, ‘Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I think one of the things that happened to me in the last couple of years in the WWE where I realized how unhappy I was in that environment, was that I realized that I needed variety and balance in my life.
Wade Barrett
The only way you can write about a happy family in a drama is to make them unhappy.
Lisa Jewell
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Wayne Dyer
I definitely wouldn’t want an unhappy wife, that’s for sure.
Emily Hampshire
There are so many rules in Judaism, and if you get into

There are so many rules in Judaism, and if you get into them and you get obsessed and you have the kind of life that I have, it can make you a very unhappy person. It can make everything complicated and more stressful than it needs to be, so I kind of loosened the knots a little bit.
Matisyahu
Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.
Julia Child
I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could… I wasn’t happy, but I wasn’t unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.
David Soul
I did a TV job, ‘Aint Misbehavin, purely for the money. I was disappointed with myself and, inevitably, incredibly unhappy.
Robson Green
It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.
Edwin Markham
Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.
Russell Simmons
I think most music provides the same messages – whether it be ‘I’m unhappy’ or ‘I love a girl.’ I just liked the package of rap music.
Iggy Azalea
Complaining not only ruins everybody else’s day, it ruins the complainer’s day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
Dennis Prager
Over the course of your life, you realize more and more who you are and how you want to spend your time. And it became clearer and clearer that I was very unhappy as an actress and didn’t feel comfortable in my own skin. When I was younger, I thought it was because I wasn’t successful enough.
Jennifer Salt
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time – the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
Octavia E. Butler
If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!
Joyce Meyer
Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it’s a wonderful business but it’s make-believe, you must remember that. That’s one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.
Dolph Lundgren
I never said I’m unhappy about going to the ACC. I’m unhappy the Big East broke up. That’s a completely different thing than saying I’m unhappy about going to the ACC.
Jim Boeheim
You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.
Theodore Zeldin
I was very unhappy at one point and dealt with my unhappiness by hitting people.
Michaela Coel
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I mean, I’m not unhappy, but there’s still so much I want to do.
Chaka Khan
I made myself unhappy measuring my love against a given norm. The truth is, we make ourselves happy in among a wide variety of loves; all count.
Monique Roffey
I just realized one day that I was so unhappy. And not only that, but I didn’t even like the person that I was. I didn’t even know who I was. And so ‘Shatter Me’ is about first discovering what was under the shell and then learning to love that person that was under it. And then not being afraid to break free.
Lindsey Stirling
It stands to reason that a person can’t put forth his best effort if he’s unhappy or if in the back of his mind there is gnawing worry about the butcher, baker, or reaction of his associates.
Agnes Moorehead
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
Mick Jagger
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
Michael J. Fox
I’d like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I’m also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.
Will Oldham
Most near-future fictions are boring. It’s always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
Haruki Murakami
You can’t be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.
Jim Harrison
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
Francis Ford Coppola
My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer – profoundly and deeply unhappy.
Saul Leiter
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein
The Royal Ballet School looked after me very well, they were like my family, and the company gave me everything. But I was unhappy and I didn’t know how to express it.
Sergei Polunin
I’m here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
Wanda Sykes
I would say I kind of just realized one day that it wasn’t worth hiding from my emotions, and that I was unhappy, and that I needed to make a change in my life so that I could be happier.
Noah Centineo
I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

I’m very unhappy when I’m not writing.
Doris Lessing
I know that a lot of German clubs are unhappy with the Premier League clubs’ spending, but I think it is something good for all clubs in the end.
Thomas Muller
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
Dorothea Dix
I’ve always been unhappy with my teeth. I’ve lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I’ve got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated.
Kate O’Mara
I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.
Bob Dylan
I’d like to hire Hillary Clinton. She looks unhappy at the State Department. She’d get ratings.
Roger Ailes
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
Haruki Murakami
Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It’s cowardly, I know, but I figure it’s not my job to make people unhappy. I’ll leave that to the professionals.
Meg Rosoff
I’m there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don’t like it, I’m very unhappy, but I can’t do anything about that.
Richard Foreman
In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we’re actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we’re into, provided that it’s a healthy pursuit, it’s a good thing.
Frank Luntz
I left acting in the summer of 1988 because I was unhappy with a lot of the irresponsibility that was going on in the entertainment industry.
Ben Harney
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Bertolt Brecht
I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
Al Purdy
People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it’s ‘don’t do this, don’t do that, do this, do that.’
Mireille Guiliano
Kids are the most conventional people in the world. It is more important than anything else for them to conform, and I was a kind of oddball. I was driven into being independent. I was very, very unhappy.
Charlton Heston
The prospect that I could actually be a journalist triggered a ‘Who do you think you are?’ reaction in me. It was only in going to law school and being unhappy there that I realized that I really, really had to try it.
Jodi Kantor
Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
Abigail Johnson
I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I’m happy, I make great music. When I’m unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.
Narada Michael Walden