Browsing Topic Best Unhappy Quotes

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

Desire to me is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

If you’re constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault… Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

I don’t believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else… finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

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

When I was at Baylor, I wasn’t fully happy because I couldn’t be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

You must want to be first-class …meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I’m unhappy. Then it’s a miserable existence. I’m putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn’t do anything, I feel so ashamed. I’m afraid I’ll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn’t. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn’t work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

The Constitution was written to protect individual freedom and limit the ability of the government to encroach upon it. The liberals don’t like that. The Democrats are very unhappy. The Constitution limits government too much. So they want to rewrite it, have a second Bill of Rights. So they want a new Bill of Rights that spells out what government can do instead of a Bill of Rights that tells government what it can’t do.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

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.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

The ego’s form of happiness can’t exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

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.

Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility… Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.