Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rumi

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Steven Pressfield

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

Sue Grafton

If you're unhappy, change something.

Seth Godin

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Paula Danziger

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single

Lauryn Hill

I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?

John Piper

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

Penelope Wilton

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

Paulo Coelho

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

Nora Roberts

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

Michael Caine

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

Mason Cooley

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

Michael J. Fox

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

Oscar Wilde

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

Michael Dell

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

Alexandre Dumas

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

Jim Beaver

I was very unhappy about being killed off on 'Supernatural' in season 7.

Ernest Hemingway

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

F. Lee Bailey

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

George R. R. Martin

A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.

Franz Schubert

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

Irving Kristol

One can be unhappy before eating caviar, even after, but at least not during.

Jasper Carrott

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

Jason Patric

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

Jack Kirby

I don't want to take somebody else's beating. That makes me unhappy.

Irving Layton

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

C. S. Lewis

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

Ethan Hawke

If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.