Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Heller

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

John le Carre

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

George MacDonald

But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

Karen Armstrong

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

Harlan Coben

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.

Lord Byron

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Paul Taylor

If I didn't have the reverb I'd be an unhappy camper. So I want reverb in my monitor mix. Reverb and a good level in my monitor and I'm all set.

Pope Francis

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

Thornton Wilder

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.

Roger Ebert

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Sandra Cisneros

I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere.

Ruth Ozeki

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

Wayne Dyer

You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

Samuel Beckett

Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

Whitney Houston

I'd rather be alone than unhappy

William Godwin

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

Stefan Zweig

In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the occurrences in unhappy Vienna alone would have been sufficient to cause international proscription, but in 1938 the world conscience was silent or merely muttered surlily before it forgot and forgave.

Tim Berners-Lee

Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.

Stuart Rothenberg

The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell.

Stewart Brand

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

Stevie Smith

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

Peace Pilgrim

If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.

Rabindranath Tagore

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

Viktor E. Frankl

Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

Stephen King

sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend

Sophie Swetchine

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

Stanley Kubrick

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

Marc Andreessen

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

Sharon Salzberg

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

Tony Robbins

There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.

Thomas Szasz

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.

Tom Hanks

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."