Best Unhappy Proverbs
1276 Unhappy quotes by 864 unique authors
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Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
— Rebecca West
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I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I…
— Abbey Lincoln
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Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.
— Thurman Arnold
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
— Wally Lamb
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Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.
— Curtis Jackson
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We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves us, however, to…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
— Fannie Hurst
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As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships…
— Vernon Howard
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Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel…
— Michel Houellebecq
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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…
— Anton Chekhov
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The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
— Freya Stark
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We have created a mindset in our society where everyone wants what they want when they want it. And if we don't get what we…
— Steve Rizzo
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How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum…
— Hal Varian
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One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate…
— Philip Slater
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If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an…
— Polykarp Kusch
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When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in…
— Barbara La Marr
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It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on…
— Frank Luntz
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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…
— Dennis Prager
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If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
— Alfred Renyi
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If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our…
— Epictetus
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Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.
— Sophie Arnould
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Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at…
— George Harrison
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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…
— Simon Soloveychik
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