A Quote by Rebecca West

Unhappy people are dangerous.

Rebecca West

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Rebecca West
Irish - Author
December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983

A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.

Simon Soloveychik

Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.

Tony Robbins

A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.

Kenneth Branagh

Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.

Debbie Reynolds

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

Anne Roiphe

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

Alice James

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Guy de Maupassant

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

Mindy Kaling

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

A. C. Benson

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

Dennis Prager

Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

Frederick Lenz

There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.

Tony Robbins

By definition, half the people leaving the courtroom are unhappy. Any good judge can make more than half the people unhappy. The job is not to make people like you or make people think you're their friend.

Steven Pacey

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.