Best 502 quotes in «unhappy quotes» category

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.

Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked.

BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE

Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.

Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'

Do you know New York stifles me? It makes me so unhappy. There are so many things I want, and so many things I cannot afford to have. I don't see how people ever have money enough to live here.

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.

Families without songs are unhappy families.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it, you'd be unhappy because you'd never be able to reach it. You can incrementally improve your life, but you never quite experience the glamour. You never quite get to your utopia, or whatever it is. And once you realize that you can be quite Buddhist about it, and say, "Well, okay, I'm just going to keep detached from it all.

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

From an early age I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite!

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

I agree with the Lev Tolstoy quote completely, but I also feel like there's more to it. What is a happy family and an unhappy family? We're probably both of those things at the same time.

I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as I am - that, in itself, should make you unhappy.