Unhappy Quotes
- Page 2But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.
William Odom
Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
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.
Jonathan Franzen
Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.
Tony Hsieh
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
Amos Oz
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
John Galsworthy
It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.
Jenny Agutter
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
Haruki Murakami
I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family.
Nia Long
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
Tina Weymouth
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.
John Hurt
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
Bram Stoker
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Epictetus
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
Guy de Maupassant
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
William Temple
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood
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.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Robert Sheckley
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
I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.
Jason Patric
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.
John le Carre