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Unhappy Quotes

For the discontent that pushes you to change something.

One line describes reaching a better place simply by refusing to stay unhappy and taking a chance instead. That resolve fits alongside our Mood collection.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Agatha Christie

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Quotes by Aesop

I spent so long trying to be other people, and it made me really deeply unhappy.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.

Quotes by Adam Lambert

Emotion Quotes

To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set...

Quotes by Adam Cohen

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Quotes by Abraham Maslow

Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

Quotes by Abigail Johnson

When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in,...

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

Every player wants to play. That's pretty normal. Every player is unhappy when he's on the bench. That's pretty normal, too. But it's football: only 11 players can start, and the coach has his game plan for each game.

Quotes by Xherdan Shaqiri

Identity Quotes

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Quotes by Willie Nelson

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Quotes by William Temple

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.

Quotes by William Odom

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

Quotes by William Joyce

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

Quotes by Wanda Sykes

Mood Quotes

Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

Quotes by W. P. Kinsella

I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

Quotes by Tommy Kirk

I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world.

Quotes by Timothy Morton

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Quotes by Thornton Wilder

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Quotes by Thomas Fuller

Reflection Quotes

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

Quotes by Thomas Campion

Writers watching their stories reshaped on screen, or a bench player waiting for minutes, both know this particular restlessness well. Explore our Emotion and Reflection quotes.