Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
Every player wants to play. That’s pretty normal. Every player is unhappy when he’s on the bench. That’s pretty normal, too. But it’s football: only 11 players can start, and the coach has his game plan for each game.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
I’ve realized I can’t waste any moment being unhappy.
Towards the end with Pantera – although I was never unhappy with the music we were making – it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I’m sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I’m very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.
I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn’t know that my face was streamed with tears.
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
I’d earned enough money, I had a flat in Wimbledon, I did some corporate things, but I was really unhappy. After being challenged all my life, suddenly there were no challenges any more.
George Lucas doesn’t have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he’d never do it again.
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.
I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career.
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I’m unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I’m angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I’m very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.
Every day I’d talk to my customers at Webex and they’d tell me how unhappy they were with our service. This was a terrible way to spend my days, it weighed heavily on my heart. I wanted to spend my days delivering happiness, and I knew I had to take charge of my own destiny to do that.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments’ policies toward the Palestinians.
I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn’t turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn’t complain when things were going wrong.
I can’t say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.
I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.
When you’re unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.
Dry skin is unhappy, damage-prone skin, so apply a product to protect it from summertime drying agents like sunburns, salt and chlorine.
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don’t relax because I don’t know how. I don’t want to know how. Life is too short to relax.
When you’re in a world, and your parents are one way, and you’re told, ‘This is how the whole world is, and this is how you’re supposed to be,’ and you’re terribly unhappy in that world, it’s a very scary thing.
People don’t tend to be unhappy in jobs doing something that they love, so I think it’s important that those entering the world of work for the first time are given as much information as possible on how to get into the career that they want.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
I don’t like the feeling of being unhappy. I don’t like the feeling of being unsure about myself, or uncertain with where something’s going – I would rather turn away. I just can’t feel like that ever again. It’s just horrible.
Drama’s unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.
It’s going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
You don’t feel bad when you’re dancing. You can’t feel unhappy; it’s impossible. It’s such a natural way to release endorphins.
I realised those things my ego needed – fame and success – were going to make me terribly unhappy. So I wrenched myself away from that. I had to. I had to walk away from America and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career because I knew, otherwise, my demons would get the better of me.
My childhood was extremely unhappy. That’s not to say that my parents didn’t love me. But it was traumatic, and of course, art doesn’t come out of rosy gardens. It comes out of damage.
There’s this really good line in ‘Women in Love’ where Ursula says, ‘I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.’ And actually I think that’s very common, it’s what a lot of people feel – that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
When I left the WWE then I wasn’t unhappy with the company at all.
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
If you are unhappy, you cant raise a happy child. One should follow their passion and do something they like.
I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That’s the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That’s part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
When I was 31, we sold Twitch for a billion dollars. I achieved everything I ever dreamed of. When I was 35, I realized I was just as unhappy as I’d ever been.
If you’re unhappy, you should change what you’re doing.
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Yeah, if someone’s selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they’re trading it I don’t mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more… I’m only unhappy when I’m not working.
I can be unhappy with the Congress, but I cannot give up on its ideology.
The way I look at the world, if you can’t find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.
Most of us are destined to be unhappy if we can’t accept that we will have moments – or a waist size – that don’t match our perfect vision of how things should be.
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
If I ever write an autobiography, ‘Hilariously Unhappy’ could very well be the title.
Even people who aren’t pleasant to deal with – it’s often because they’re unhappy, and something’s still not resolved for them.
People used to be unhappy that files and data of Aramco are undeclared, unclear, and not transparent.
There isn’t much room to get sick, be angry or unhappy when you do something you love all day.
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‘renouncing’ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‘happy’ or ‘unhappy’ in the usual meaning of the words.
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing – it’s not like it was unhappy or anything.
People from my father’s generation didn’t have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.
And I can tell you from firsthand experience that our train system is a mess. Carriages are full of unhappy travellers packed together like sardines, who have inexplicably paid for the privilege of being incarcerated.
People are unhappy with the direction of the country – we saw that with the rise of the Tea Party; we saw that when we had thousands of people at the statehouse in Concord, New Hampshire, protesting the government with more taxes and more spending.
