Top 1200 Unhappy People Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.

A lot of people love what I do and a lot of people don't like or hate my style, so it's external - I really don't care about that. I'm happy with the people that appreciate it, but I'm not unhappy with the people that don't like it.

I was very, very unhappy with even the so-called very elite schools. The one thing I've always done every day with my children is to watch what they do at school, and I was always a bit unhappy with the academic program. It was a kind of hit and miss.

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

I was very unhappy at one point and dealt with my unhappiness by hitting people.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

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.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

I was desperately unhappy with it [Blade Runner]. I was compelled by contract to record five or six different versions of the narration, each of which was found wanting on a storytelling basis. The final version was something that I was completely unhappy with. The movie obviously has a very strong following, but it could have been more than a cult picture.

Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - for my heroines, anyway. And later on, I began to read things like 'Wuthering Heights,' and very, very unhappy endings would take place, so I changed my ideas completely and went in for the tragic, which I enjoyed.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" - and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Man is an unhappy animal and one that can talk. If he was not unhappy, he would have nothing to talk about. But if he had nothing to talk about, he would be unhappy.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

The first record I made, when I listen to it, I understand. I understand perfectly well why certain musicians were unhappy with me. I had to decide: was I unhappy with me? I liked it. If they didn't like it, it was on them.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.'

People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.

Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly.

The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves.

Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle.

It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

There are some white people who are very unhappy that I am in an interracial relationship.

Hollywood - it's either people who are unhappy or soon will be.

People who write happy songs are often unhappy.

The bottom line for most people who are normal is their need for other people. Even the greedy ones have this need - as long as they're not sociopathic. They may be very misguided and unhappy and do bad things and so forth, but in general if you look down deep, you find that these people are mainly concerned with other people and what other people think of them.

People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.

I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls.

Occupied people are not unhappy people.

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.

Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

There are people who are unhappy with everything.

We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.

I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back...it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

I’ve been happy alone and I’ve been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.